228 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 58 



MINERALOGY (Continued) 



1602. . Recherches sur la production artificielle des mineraux de la 



famille des silicates et des aluminates, par la reaction des vapeurs 

 sur les roches. 



C. R. Acad. Sci., Vol. 39, 1854, Paris, pp. 135-140. 



Cassiterite artiflcially prepared by passing the vapor of stannic chloride over lieated 

 lime. 



. See No. 1314. 



Davey, Richabd. See No. 1603. 



1603. Davey, Stephen. Notice of pseudomorphous crystals of oxide of tin, 



found in Huel Coates mine, in St. Agnes in the year 1828. 



Trans. Roy. Geol. Soc. Cornwall, Vol. 4, 1838, Penzance, pp. 484-485. 



A short description of pseudomorphs after feldspar. Crystals in many stages of 

 replacement were found. 



Boase and Courtney (Bibliotheca Comubiensis, Vol. 1, 1874, London, p. 106), state 

 that this paper is really by Richard Davey, which is the name given in the index 

 of the book in which the article occurs. 



1604. De\'ille, H. Saint-Claire. De la reproduction de I'etain oxyde et du 



rutile. 



C. R. Acad. Sci., Vol. 53, 1861, Paris, pp. 161-164. 



Tlie crj'stallized oxide of tin obtained " by heating the amorphous oxide in a slow 

 current of hydrochloric acid gas and again by a repetition of Daubree's first process." 



1605. Deville, Saint-Claire H., and Caron, H. Sur un nouveau mode de 



production k I'etat cristallise d'un certain nombre d'especes chimiques 

 et mineralogiques. 



C. R. Acad. Sci., Vol. 46, 1858, Paris, p. 768. 



" The crystallized oxide of tin was obtained when stannic fluoride and boric oxide 

 were heated together to whiteness." No details. 



1606. Ditte, a. Sur quelques combinaisons du bioxyde d'etain. 



C. R. Acad. Sci., Vol. 104, 18S7, Paris, pp. 172-175. 



Faw^ns, Sydney. See No. 1320. 



1607. Field, Fbederick. On a specimen of tin ore hitherto undescribed. 



Rep. Brit. Ass. Adv. Sci., Vol. 34, Bath, 1864, London, 1865, p. 27. (Notes and 

 abstracts. ) 



Description of two specimens of " slime tin," a variety of " toad's-eye wood-tin 

 (sic)." 



1608. Foster, C. Le Neve. On the place and mode of occurrence of the 



mineral Andrewsite. 



Trans. Roy. Gcol. Soc. Cornwall, Vol. 9, 1875, Penzance, pp. 163-164. 

 A hj'drous iron-copper-phosphate occurring with tin ore at the West Phoenix Mine, 

 Liskeard, Cornwall. 



1609. FouLLON, H. Ueber krystallisirtes Zinn. • 



Jahrb. k. k. geol. Reichs., Vol. 34, 1SS4, Wien, pp. 367-384, wood cuts 2, pi. of 

 figs. 1. 



Abstract: Min. Mag. Journ. Min. Soc, Vol. 6, 1885, London, p. 148. 



Found that crystals of tin obtained from the molten metal were of rhombic form, 

 generally twinned. Such crystals may also be obtained by electrolytic deposition. 



