Piedmont collection was outlined in the Bulletin of April 1909, 

 and the carbon collection in the Bulletin of March 1910. The 

 present brief article is designed as a report of progress in regard 

 to these two collections. 



The Piedmont collection was designed to illustrate the occur- 

 ence and distribution of minerals throughout the belt of crysta- 

 line rocks, extending from Virginia to Alabama, east of the mount- 

 ains, although it would include also to some extent, material 

 from the mountain region to the west of the Piedmont. This 

 belt, extending through the upper country of the south Atlantic 

 states, is rich in minerals of a generally similar character, and in- 

 cludes the important mining regions of western North Carolina 

 and northern Georgia as well as the extreme upper part of this 

 state. No such collection as this exists to show the distribution 

 of minerals throughout this extensive area, and the object of the 

 Piedmont collection is to gather such an exhibit here. Since 

 the article referred to was written considerable progress has been 

 made in gathering material for the Piedmont collection, and the 

 exhibit is already well begun, occupying a number of drawers 

 in the storage room of the Museum. A valuable set of speci- 

 mens was received from Dr. Joseph H. Pratt, State Geologist of 

 North Carolina, and many specimens have been received from 

 other sources. These, in addition to the North Carohna col- 

 lection presented by the writer, containing specimens secured 

 from several gentlemen connected with the earlier explorations 

 in the corundum region of the state in the years following the 

 War between the States, present a very good exhibit of the 

 mineral resources of North Carolina at many points, although 

 far from complete. A very good Virginia representation has also 

 been secured from several sources. The writer personally vis- 

 ited two years ago the celebrated Rutherford Mines at Amelia 

 Court House, and secured a fine representation of the minerals 

 for which that locality is noted, and other material from other 

 parts of the state. The Georgia and Alabama portion of the 

 collection is not so well represented with the exception of one 



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