217 



CRYPTOLITE. 



Arendal, Norway. —J. Wobler, Ann. Ch. u. Pharm. lvii. 



268. 



In the rose-colored Apatite. 



PHOSPHO-CERITE. 



Johannisberg, Sweden. — Chapman, Q. J. Ch. So. Lond. 



II. 154 ; Watts, loc. cit. 



MOXAZITE. 



Mlask. — E. Hermann, J. f. prakt. Ch. xxxiii. 90; XL. 21. 



MoNAZiTOiD. — Near Mask. — E. Hermann, J. f. prakt. Ch. xl, 28. 



LANTHANITE. 



Bethlehem, Lehigh Co., Pennsylvania. — Smith (J. L.), 



Am. J. Sci. and Art, S. S. xviii. 378. 

 Genth, Am. J. Sci. and Art, S. S. xxin. 425. 



Canton Mne, Georgia. Shepard, Am. J. Sci. and Art, 



S. S. xxiv. 43. 



— — Sanford Iron Ore Bed, Moriah, Essex County, N. Y. 

 Blake, Am. J. Sci. and Ai-t, S. S. xxvi. 245. 



PARISITE. 



New Granada. Bunsen, Ann. Ch. u. Pharm. liii. 147 : 



Leonh. 1846, 726-730 ; Berzelius, Jahr. xxiv. 283 ; Kenngott, 



Uebersicht, 1844-49, 50. 

 It is to be regretted that two different mineral species should be 

 only characterized in their nomenclature by a difference in their 

 penult ; thus Parasite and Parasite, the latter name being applied by 

 Volger to a borate. 



Dr. J. H. Otis presented some bones of the gorilla recently 

 obtained by him in Western Equatorial Africa. 



He had just returned in a national vessel from the Gaboon and 

 Camma rivers and the vicinity of ]Mr. Du Chaillu's explorations. He 

 stated that it was comparatively easy to obtain specimens at the 

 latter locahty, at the factory, and through Bishop & Co., in New 

 York city ; young gorillas, he said, are not uncommonly seen in 

 captivity there, and are frequently brought in by the natives. 



Professor Wyman observed that these bones were very important 

 and interesting, as they belonged to an adult female, which, as yet, 

 are very rare in collections. There was a nearly complete skeleton, 

 with the exception of the hands and feet ; from the absence of cranial 

 crests and the general absence of extreme angularity in the face, he 

 pronounced the two skulls female, though the length of the canines in 



