532 REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1886. 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 



Steatite [soapstone]. Fine; compact; light blue gray. Ou laud of W. W. EvaiiH, 

 uortli of Woodley Laiie road, Washington. Dr. William S. Mcllhenney, 1886. 

 38510. 



FI.OUIDA. 



Limestone. Oolitic; porous aud fiiable; nearly white. Key West. New Orleans 

 Exposition, 1885. 37631. 



Coarse shell rock ("coquina ") ; light colored. Suwannee River. John S. F. 



Batchen, 1884. 35898. 

 Sandstone. Phosphatic; light colored; coarsely cellular. Near Hawthorne, Alachua 

 County. C. A. Simmous's quarry. Tenth Census. 25208. 



Phosphatic; nearly white ; coarsely vesicular. Suwannee River. John S. F. 



Batchen, 1884. 35899. 



Limestone [marble]. Lower Siluriau ; pink; coarse; crystalline. Tate, Pickens 



County. Georgia Marble Company, 1886. 38367. 

 Lower Silurian; white with dark blotches; coarse; crystalline. Two speci- 

 mens. Tate, Pickens County. Georgia Marble Company, 1886. 38368. 



Lower Silurian; pure white; coarse; crystalline. Turned column, 6 inches 



long, 1 inch diameter. Tate, Pickens County. Georgia Marble Company, 

 1886. 38370. 



Lower Siluriau ; white and dark mottled; coarse; crystalline. Tate, Pickens 



County. Georgia Marble Company, 1886. 38369. 

 Dolomite [marble]. Purplish gray ; fine aud compact. Near Chattanooga, Catoosa 



County. Chickamaugua quarry. Tenth Census, 1880. 25916. 

 Muscovite granite. Fine ; light gray. Stone Mountain Station, on Georgia 

 Railroad, De Kalb County. Stone Mountain quarry. Tenth Census, 1880. 2.5905. 

 Hornblende biotite gneiss. Fine; dark gray. Atlanta, Fulton County. P. 



Lynch's quarry. Tenth Census, 1880. 25892. 

 Gneiss [-with pagodite]. Light green. A gneissoid rock containing green i)ago- 

 dite. Pagodite is a soft hydrous rock, from which the Chinese sometimes carve 

 miniature pagodas; heuce its name. 3^ by 4 by 2 inches. Near Washington, 

 Wilkes County. Prof. C. N. Shepard, 1880. 26818. 



IDAHO. 



Sandstone. Coarse ; light colored. Near Boisd City, Ada County. Penitentiary 

 quarry. Tenth Census. 26660. 



Coarse; light colored. Near Bois6 City, Ada County. Penitentiary quarry. 



Tenth Census. 26661. 



ILLINOIS. 



Limestone. Sub-Carbonil'oroua ; semi-crystalline; dark gray. Two specimens. 



Shetlerville, Hardin County. G. A. Craiger's quarr^r. Tenth Census, 1880. 



26393. 



Sub-Carboniferous ; finely fossiliferous ; brown. Near Chester, Randolph 



County. J. Hern's quarry. Tenth Census, 1880. 25744. 



Sub-Carboniferous; semi-crystalline; dark gray. Chester, Randolph County. 



J. Hern's quarry. Tenth Census, 1880. 25685. 



Sub-Carboniferous; somi-crystalline ; light gray. Near Chester, Randolph 



County. Quarry of Southern lilluois Penitentiary. Tenth Census, 18i0. 

 25686. 



