Locality List of Miiberals front Victoria. 69 



Very many interesting particulars were given in connection 

 with some of the records, and I should have liked much to include 

 them in this paper, but space would not admit of it, and thus, in 

 some respects, it may be looked upon as but an index to the 

 mineral records. 



I have had a difficulty in fixing the mineralogical names for 

 some of the records, and in some cases I have not been able to 

 decide the correct species at all, as the composition alone was 

 given, e.g., " carbonate of copper," " oxide of iron," " lead ore," 

 etc. This prevents me from being able to state accurately the 

 number of distinct mineral species recorded from Victoria, but I 

 calculate it to be somewhat over 200. Mr. W. F. Petterd in the 

 introduction to his " Catalogue of the Minerals of Tasmania, 

 1893," calculates that New South Wales has about 185 species, 

 New Zealand about 172, Queensland about 101, and South 

 Australia about 100; so that Victoria seems to rank highest of 

 the colonies in the number of its mineral species. 



I have to thank Mr. G. B. Pritchard, and Mr. T. S. Hall, M.A., 

 for much valuable assistance in connection with this paper ; also 

 Messrs. A. W. Howitt, F.G.S., O. R. Rule, late of the Techno- 

 logical Museum, A. Purdie, of Ballai'at School of Mines, and 

 D. Clark, of Bairnsdale School of Mines, for advice, suggestions, 

 records, etc., which they kindly gave me. 



List op Abbreviations. 



Bl. 1866 - - Rev. Dr. Bleasdale, in Official Record of 

 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition, 1866. 



B.S. 1866 - - R. Brough Smyth, in Official Record of Mel- 

 bourne Intercolonial Exhibition, 1866. 



B.S. 1872 - - R. Brough Smyth, in Official Record of 

 London International Exhibition, 1873, Mel. 

 bourne, 1872-3. 



B.S. 1861 - - R. Brough Smyth, in Catalogue of Victorian 

 Exhibition, 1861, with prefatory essays. 



CI. - - Donald Clark, B.C.E., of North Gippsland 



School of Mines, in Report of Australasian 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 1892. 



