Pictorial Catalogue on One Hundred Indian Meteorites

Geological Survey of India, the custodian of all meteorites, maintains a Meteorite Gallery in the Indian Museum, Calcutta for the public display. The survey has a collection of 686 meteorites housed in the Central Petrological Laboratories, Calcutta. A complete inventory of the enriched collection has been published from GSI by Coulson (1940) and subsequently updated by Sen Gupta and Sen Gupta (1982). The present comprehensive catalogue, is the first of its kind. This catalogue is unique in the sense that it includes pictorial documentation of morphological features of one hundred Indian meterorites and also provides an addendum on the collection of meteorites (both Indian and foreign) in the custody of the Geological Survey of India from 1982 onwards.