Art. IX. — A Locality List of all the Minerals hitherto 

 recorded front Victoria. 



By John A. Atkinson. 



[Read 13th August, 1896.] 



Introduction. 



In offering this list of minerals found in Victoria, I do not 

 claim to have made any fresh records ; but rather to have 

 collected into one paper the records that are spread over a great 

 many different publications. New South Wales has its list in 

 Professor Liversidge's " Minerals of New South Wales," and a 

 supplementary list in the " Report of the Second Meeting of the 

 Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 1890." 

 Queensland, South Australia, and New Zealand, have their lists 

 also in the last-named work, and Tasmania has a list published by 

 Mr. W. F. Petterd in 1893, while the most recent list of Victorian 

 minerals was many years old, and, in consequence, incomplete, 

 inasmuch as it did not contain the records of the last twenty years 

 or more. 



Having felt the want of such a list, and having time to spare, 

 I acted on the advice of gentlemen interested in mineralogy, and 

 undertook to search for all the published records and include them 

 in one catalogue. The object was not only to enumerate all the 

 minerals, but, as far as possible, also all the localities where they 

 were found, either in large or small quantities, and to give the 

 reference to the original record. The work demanded much more 

 time and labour than I anticipated, but I have derived much 

 pleasure and not a little profit from it, and the number of books 

 and papers I had to go through to find the records shows how 

 badly the work needed doing. It is a pity that some professional 

 mineralogist had not taken the work up, or, being left to an 

 amateur, that a more able man had not undertaken it. I feel 

 this the more when I contrast it with the list published in 1866 

 by Professor Ulrich, who seems to have clone most of the work of 

 this kind in Victoria. 



