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RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



Sh' Douglas Mawson, in a paper ^ descinbing anatase from tlie Glen 

 Osmond Quarry, Adelaide, makes the statement that anatase is tliere 

 recorded for the first time from Australia. That is not quite correct, for 

 it has previously been recorded, though with very meagre descriptions, 

 from Burrandong and the Ciidgegong River, N.S.Wales,^ from Pakenham^" 

 and the Woolslied Valley,!^ Victoria, and from Clayton Rivulet and other 

 localities in Tasmania. i- 



SULPHUR. 



Hot Lakes District, New Zealand. 



(PL xli., tig. L) 



The Museum collection contains a number of specimens of native 

 sulphur, coating siliceous sintei', from the above localit}^ The sulphur is 

 in minute crystals, the largest not mxich bigger than a pin's head, but 

 they are well formed, brilliant, and fairly rich in forms. Pour crystals 

 were measured and sixteen forms were identified ; in addition \ ('-10) is 

 doubtfully present. The combinations are shown below : — 



^ Mawson — Trans. Roy. Soc. *S. Austr., xl., 1916, p. 262. 



» Liversidge- Mineral's of N.S.Wales, 1888, p. 84. 



'" Newbery— Rept. Prog. Geol. Surv. A^ict., 1876 (1877). No. 4. p. 168. 

 '1 Dunn— Bull. Geol. Surv. Vict., 25. 1913, p. 7. 



'-' Gould— Procs. Roy. Soc. 'J'as., 1873 (1874). p. 57; Petterd— Cat. Mins. Tas.. 

 p. 7 (Hobart, Govt. Printer, 1910) . 



