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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2018
The discovery of the meteoric stone near Lake Brown, County Avon, South-West Division, Western Australia, was recorded by Dr. Edward S. Simpson in the Annual Progress Report of the Geological Survey of Western Australia for 1921 (1922, p. 53). The following details concerning the meteorite are taken from that report and from a letter of September 25, 1925, sent by Dr. Simpson with the specimen, weighing 174 grams, which was presented to the British Museum collection by Mr. A. Gibb Maitland, at that time Government Geologist of Western Australia.
page 155 note 1 Lake Brown is a lake and also a railway-station at latitude 31° S., longitude 118½° E., about. On the map of Western Australia by J. Arrowsmith (London, 1863) and in the British Museum ‘Catalogue of Meteorites’ (1923) the county is given as Carnarvon.
page 155 note 2 Separate from Report of the Department of Mines, Western Australia, for 1921, Perth, 1922, p. 123. The entry there reads : ‘Lake Brown. A pale grey aerolite with but little metallic nickel iron. Total weight 2½ lbs. Found in 1919 by Mr. Stuckey.’
page 155 note 3 In the original report (loc. cit.) the weight is wrongly given as 2½ lb.
page 156 note 1 Figs. 1 and 2 are reproduced from photographs sent by Dr. E. S. Simpson, and represent the meteorite as first received by the Geological Survey of Western Australia.
page 157 note 1 G. T. Prior, The meteoric stones of Launton, Warbreccan … Min. Mag., 1916, vol. 18, p. 8.
