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Still another gift of Mr. Bement is a specimen of friedelite, also 

 from Franklin Furnace (U. S. Nat. Mus. 93391). Scattered over the 

 specimen are clear, glassy willemite crystals of a light green color. 

 They are made up of the hexagonal prism and terminated by the 

 rhombohedron. The friedelite forms rich brown masses attached to 

 the willemite crystals and also as botyi'oidal coatings over the rock. 

 The ground mass in some places is made up of small, brilliant yellow 

 cr3^stals of garnet. The combination is pleasing and attractive. 



Another gift of 'Mr. Bement is a crystallized specimen of leuco- 

 phoenicite, consisting of a mass of barite with interspersed crystals 

 of franklinite upon which is a crust of leucophoenicite 4 centimeters 

 in thickness. The surface of a large portion of this crust is covered- 

 with brilliant rose red crystals. Coating a portion of the face and 

 also lining cavities and between the plates of barite are masses of 

 felty sussexite of pale pink color. Qualitative tests show that this 

 is the true sussexite and not the calcite zincite mixture so commonly 

 called by that name. The specimen, therefore, is interesting not 

 only crystallographically, but also as an association of these two rare 

 minerals. 



Other specimens deserving mention are the rare carbonate nes- 

 quehonite (U. S. Nat. Mus. 93755), the gift of Samuel Gordon; 

 inyoite from Nova Scotia presented by Albert Manufacturing Co., 

 (U. S. Nat. Mus. 93768), a new locality for this mineral; an unusually 

 large twinned quartz crystal from Japan and two unusuall}- large and 

 clear crystals of willemite, and a brilliant cut stone of deep yellow 

 color, weighing 11 carats, of the same material from Franklin Fur- 

 nace (U. S. Nat. Mus. 93389), from Mr. Bement. 

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