Show Meteorite of Great Age Meteorites of indicated great peat ag agare age are conspicuous by their absence from museum collections am it is Js suggested suggested suggest suggest suggest- ed ed that such specimens may disintegrate disintegrate grate and disappear from the rocks within a relatively short time after falling The British museum however has lately acquired a slice of somewhat l less ss than a pound from a meteoric iron that is believed to represent an ancient fall tall The slice is from one of two similar masses that were found In January 1905 within a n few miles I of Dawson Klondike and that from their position deep In the oldest gravels gray grave els elt of the district are thought to hare haTe rested there since the the Pliocene age aee or before From his study of the original specImens specImens specimens spec spec- In the museum of the geol gt cal col survey at Ottawa R. R A A. A A. A AJohn John son has concluded that they are part of a single meteoric shower of TertIary Tertiary Ter- Ter time Ne Newark News |