584 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1893. 



No. 60631. Irregular block, some 4 by 4 by 6 inches, of finely banded aragonite. Quar- 

 ries near Rio Puerco Station, Valencia County, New Mexico. Received from T. R. 

 Gabell. 1893. 



No. 37642. Block of variegated white and brown opaque material, cut across the 

 grain; 6 by 12 by 2 inches. Aguas Calieutes, Mexico. Received from New 

 Orleans Exposition. 1885. 



No. 26011. Polished slab, 11 by 8 inches by 1 inch, of dark green translucent trav- 

 ertine, from Puebla, Mexico. Received from Mexican Centennial Commission. 

 1876. 



No. 37640. Polished blocks and thin slabs of white and green higlily translucent 

 travertine, 4 by 4 inches and 7 by 7 inches, from Tecali, Puebla, Mexico. Received 

 from New Orleans Exposition 1885. 



No. 37593 and No. 37594. Paper weights of onyx marble, as manufactured by the 

 native Mexicans. State of Puebla, Mexico. 



No. 37595. Paper cutter of onyx marble, as manufactured by the native Mexicans. 

 State of Puebla, Mexico. 



No. 37596. Thin slab of nearly transparent white travertine, from State of Tecali, 

 Puebla, Mexico; 3 by 4 inches. Received from New Orleans Exposition. 1885. 



No. 60695. Slab of a pearl-white, highly translucent variety, cut across the grain; 17 

 by 15 inches by i inch. Puebla, Mexico. 1893. 



No. 61059. Broken table top of fibrous, mottled, white and yellowish onyx marble. 

 Locality uncertain, probably Mexico. Leidy collection. 1893. 



No. 60696. Polished slab of white variegated travertine ; 9i by Hit inches. From 

 Puebla, Mexico. 1893. 



No. 36757. Polished slab, nearly white, variegated variety; 6 by 7A inches by 4^ inch. 

 Locality as above. 



No. 68246. Nine irregulai polished blocks of pearl-white, greenish, and rose-tinted 

 varieties of travertine, from New Pedrara quarries, on Peninsula of Lower Cali- 

 fornia. Collected by George P. Merrill. 1892. 



No. 61388. Two fine slabs, of white, rose-tinted travertine, higlily translucent, 32 

 by 42 inches and about 18 by 42 inches, from the above locality. Gift of New 

 Pedrara Onyx Company 1894. 



No. 38564. Slab of light amber and white material, highly translucent, supposed to 

 be from Mexico. Gilt of Hugh Sisson Sons, Baltimore, Maryland. 1886. 



No. 60680. Small yellowish slab, from the Desert of Atacama, Chili, 1893. 



No. 36774. Small 1)lock and slabs of white and faintly amber stalagmitic material, 

 from Egypt; 3i by 3^ and 2 by 9^ inches. Gift of Bowker, Toney & Co. 1884. 



No. 25343. Polished block of brownish, finely banded translucent stone, from Blad 

 Recani, near Oued Abdallah, Algeria; 7 by 7 by 8^ inches. Gift of H. A. Ward. 

 1881. 



No. 25344. Blockof highly translucent, beautifully yellowish and white banded onyx 

 marble, from Beni Soiief, near Cairo, Egypt ; 7 by 8i by 18 inches. Received 

 from H. A. Wa.d. 1881. 



No. 25027. Irregularly rounded mass of dark opaque stalagmitic material, from Gib- 

 raltar. Received from Centennial Commission. 1876. 



No. 28638. Slab 4 by 4 inches by ^ inch of light, yellow and white stalagmitic 

 material from Italy . Received from \V. W. Story. 1883. 



No. 69702. Slab, 2f by 2f inches by J inch of white, verj' translucent, coarsely crys- 

 talline material, marked as from Stuttgart. From Museum of Natural History 

 Paris, France. 1888. 



No. 69735. Slab, 3| bySinchesby J inch, of dull, almostopaque material, from Algeria. 

 Received from Museum of Natural History, Paris, France. 1888. 



No. 69682. Slab, 5^ by 7 inches by 1 inch, of dull white opaque and porous material, 

 from Algeria. Received from Museum of Natural History, Paris, France. 1888. 



No. 69687. Slab, 5i by 7 by 3 inches, of dark, resinous, scarcely translucent material, 

 from Algeria. Received from Museum of Natural History, Paris, France. 1888. 



