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8. Silver. 



Minutely platy and other forms of silver are found in the gold 

 mines of Yamagano in Ösumi Province and of Kago in Satsuma 

 Province, besides at Kosaka in Eikuchü, &c., (according to 

 Ko). 



Wada possesses a specimen of long hairy silver from Tasei 

 in Ikuno in Tajima Province. 



9. Mercury. 



Mercury occurs, according to Harada and Otsuka, in the two 

 provinces Hyijga and Awa (Honshu). 



10. Gold. 



AsAHi near Ikuno in Tajima. — Beautiful groups of minute 

 crystals, as well as feather-like aggregates are found in the gold 

 mines. 



Yamagano in Ösumi. — In the mines of Yamagano, there 

 was found a minute hexagonal plate of gold about 0.4 cm. in 

 length, now in Wada's collection. It carries a few straightly 

 truncated triangular pyramids on its hexagonal face. 



Scaly, platy, hair-like and other forms of gold aggregates 

 are often found in some Japanese gold mines. 



11. Meteorites. 



The meteorite of Ogi in Hizen was described by Divers in 

 1882, that of Tajima treated by Korschelt in 1881, and that of 

 Kesengöri in Rikuzen by Ward in 1893. (See Wenckstern's 

 Bibliography, 1895, for the literature of Japanese minerals written 

 in European languages). A few notes on Japanese meteorites are 

 found in the Journal of the Geographical Society and in that of 

 the Geological Society of Tokyo, both published in Japanese. The 

 specimens accessible to me are : two from Fukutomi in Hizen, two 



