Colonial pride and metropolitan expectations: the British Museum and Melbourne's meteorites

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British Journal for the History of Science 27 (1):65-87 (1994)
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The four-year wrangle over the ownership of what was then thought to have been the largest known meteorite, recognized near Melbourne in 1860, provides a fine-grained example of the interaction between scientific internationalism, metropolitan appetite for specimens, and colonial civic pride.

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