9G SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 58 



GERMANY (Continued) 



Digest Translation: Trans. Inst. Ug. Eng., Vol. 22, 1001-2 (1903), London and 

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, p. 694. 



" Among other interesting minerals from this locality are graphite, tinstone, 

 tourmaline, garnet, etc." 



GREENLAND 



579. Allen, Tho. Memorandums respecting some minerals from Greenland. 



Ann. Philos., 1813, London, p. 107. 



Tin is briefly mentioned as being found among other minerals in Greenland. 



580. Anonymous. Half hours in the far north. 



Dodd, Mead and Co., New York, p. 145. 



" We were happy enough to obtain a few minerals, some specimens of rough 

 garnets, allanite, tantalite, molybdenite, etc., with copper, tin, and iron ores in 

 small quantities (near Frederil<shaabs, Greenland)." 



581. BoGGiLD, O. B. Mineralogia Groenlandica. 



Medd. Gronl., Vol. 32, 1905, Kjifl^enhavn, pp. 89-91. 

 Mentions the finding of cassiterite in Greenland. 



582. Flink, Gust. Berattelse om en mineralogisk resa i Syd-Grbniand som- 



maren 1897. 



Medd. Gronl. 14'''^ hefte, 1898, Kj0benhavn, p. 2G1. 

 (Resume des Communications sur le Gronland p. 416.) 



Briefly mentions cassiterite as having been found in small quantities during 

 tlie trip. 



583. GiESECKE, K. L. Mineralogislve rejse i Gronland. 



1878, Kj0benhavn. 



Cassiterite was found in tlie Christianshaabs district (p. 83) ; in the Frederiks- 

 haabs district on Arsuk Fjoid (pp. 161, ISO an.l 338) and at Itivdiiarsuk in the 

 Godhavn district (p. 289). 



Unimportant e.x'cept as showing distribution and mineralogical occurrence. 



584. HoFF, Th. Om tinstenens forekomst ved Iviliaet ved Arsut Fjord i 



Syd-Gronland. 



Vid. Medd. nat. Foren. Kj0benhavn, for 1854 (1855), Kj0benhavn, pp. 201-204, 

 flg. 1 in text. 



585. Rink, Henry. Danish Greenland its people and its products. Edited by 



R. Brown. 



1877, London, p. 391. 



Merely states that " tinstone accompanies tlie cryolite." 



586. Tayleb, J. W. On the veins of tia-ore at Evigtolv, near Arlvsut, Green- 



land. 



Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. London, Vol. 15, 1859, London, pp. 606 607. 



Quoted in Fawns, Sydney, " Tin deposits of the world," 1905, p. 146. 



About twenty veins tlirough an area 80 by 1500 feet, also disseminated tln-ough 

 rocks with fine grained galena and tantalite. One and one-half inches of cassiterite 

 on one side of largest vein, which is ten inches wide. Gangue feldspar, quartz, 

 fluorspar, and "sparry iron"; vein runs into white cryolite. Other accompanying 

 minerals are " blende," copper, iron and arsenical pyrites, black cryolite, " molyb- 

 dena," and zircon. No wolframite. 



