Art. XIX. — Additions and Corrections to the Census 

 of Victorian Minerals. 



By R. H. WALCOTT, F.G.S. 



[Read 13th December, 1900.] 



Introduction. 



The following mineral occurrences, with the exception of the 

 rneteoric minerals, previously unrecorded, will matei'ially supple- 

 ment the list of Victorian minerals prepared by Mr. J. A. 

 Atkinson in 1896. The balance of occurrences not included in 

 these two lists will be found in the annual reports of the Depart- 

 ment of Mines from the year 1896 and in "An introduction to 

 the study of Mineralogy" by F. M. Krause, 1896. Advantage 

 has been taken of this opportunity to correct some wrong 

 determinations made in the past, and which might otherwise 

 become perpetuated. I wns enabled to do this with the assist- 

 ;ince of Professor G. H. F. Ulrioh of tlie Otago University 

 School of Mines and Mr. O. Fi. Pvule, late of the Technological 

 Museum, to whom I am consequently greatly indebted. With 

 regard to some of the old records, although of very doubtful 

 authenticity, it is now difficult or impossible to either verify or 

 disprove them, they must therefore be accepted as correct. A 

 difficulty is also experienced in obtaining exact localities, more 

 especially if specimens have any economic value, and in many 

 instances the information cannot be relied upon, as samples 

 frequently get confused and likewise their localities. Owing to 

 this, some occurrences have been omitted, the information being 

 palpably incorrect. A matter neglected in the past, and which 

 deserves more attention, is the analyses of mineral species. Many 

 minerals can only be determined by such means, and in its 

 absence specimens have to be set aside, relegated to permanent 

 obscurity, or else exhibited under a provisional name, a proceed- 

 ing eminently undesirable. In this way interesting and perhaps 

 new minerals are lost to science. 



