| RefNo | AP/61/8 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished photograph, 'The Cranbourne meteorite' by Walter Flight |
| Date | 1882 |
| Description | An autotype showing a fragment of a meteorite in the ground at Cranbourne [Australia].
Note reads 'from W [William] Spottiswoode'.
Subject: Astronomy / Geology / Mineralogy
A paper relating to this image was published in volume 173 of Philosophical Transactions as 'Report of an examination of the meteorites of Cranbourne, in Australia; of Rowton, in Shropshire; and of Middlesbrough, in Yorkshire'. |
| Extent | 3p |
| Format | Photograph |
| PhysicalDescription | Photograph |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1882.0020 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1881.0113 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6652 | Flight; Walter (1841 - 1885) | 1841 - 1885 |
| NA7690 | Spottiswoode; William (1825 - 1883); mathematician and physicist | 1825 - 1883 |