ABSTRACTThe classificational distribution by weight of 1495 meteoritic falls of the world inventoried in the recent (1953: 2nd) edition of the Prior‐HeyCatalogue of Meteoritesis presented statistically in a table bearing that caption and graphically by means of 7 line diagrams. The system of classification used is the simplified classification of meteorites in its latest form. The integrated weight of the 1495 falls—which together constitute almost the entire known meteoritic increment of the Earth—is, in round numbers, between 450 and 500 metric