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Ward-Coonley Meteorites (Collection); Ward-Coonley Meteorites
birth: 1910
death: 1912
Permanent exhibition. Located in West Corridor, Floor 1, just off the Grand Gallery. The Ward-Coonley Meteorites at the American Museum of Natural History was a collection of 603 meteorite falls.
The Ward-Coonley Meteorites at the American Museum of Natural History was a collection of 603 meteorite falls (1, 1911, p. 18). Curator L.P. Gratacap oversaw the collection. Scientist, explorer, and founder of Ward’s Natural History Science Establishment in Rochester, NY, Henry A. Ward and his wife, Lydia Avery Coonley loaned the collection to the Museum in 1901, where it was originally exhibited in seven cases in the Hall of Geology and Invertebrate Palaeontology. The collection moved to the Foyer in 1910. Ward died in 1906 and in 1912, Lydia Coonley sold the collection to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago (2, p. 277-278; 3, 1910, p. 46).
1901Ward-Coonley collection on loan to the Museum from Henry A. Ward and exhibited in the Hall of Geology and Invertebrate Palaeontology.
1910Ward-Coonley collection moves to the Foyer.
1912Ward-Cooley collection sold to Field Museum of Natural History by Lydia Avery Coonley.