ABSTRACTThe classificational distribution of the 1,258 meteoritic falls of the world recorded in Coulson's “A Catalogue of Meteorites” (1940)2is studied. The essence of the paper is contained in 2 tables entitled respectively, “Classes of Meteorites and Representative Falls” and “The Classificational Distribution of the Meteoritic Falls of the World.” The system of classification employed is the Rose‐Tschermak‐Brezina system, with the several modifica