S4 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 
[ONG recent additions to the cabinet of minerals the 
new form of Beryl from near Spruce Pine, Mitchell 
Co., N. C., merits notice. This is an unusual tabular 
form of the mineral and was discovered by Mr. H. W. 
Wilhams. For some time it escaped proper  identi- 
fication on account of its peculiar crystalline form. 
‘The crystal consists of a broad basal plane and a hexagonal pyramid, 
the two united in thin plates inclosed in a coarse granitic matrix. Pro- 
fessor Moses of Columbia University has described this remarkable 
occurrence. ‘Lhe specimens are valued as crystallographic novelties. 
A really superb specimen of Poiybasite has been obtained through 
the Bruce Fund. ‘The specimen was found in Sonora, Mexico, and 
brought to the Museum by Mr. A. B. Frenzel. It is a splendid group 
of lustrous, intersecting plates, the plates being tabular prisms with 
pyramidal edges. 
The third notable addition is a unique and particularly beautiful 
specimen of crystallized Native Copper. It is a thicket of nail-like, 
elongated prismatic crystals, possibly tetrahexahedrons, with minutely 
dentate edges, of brilliant surface, and associated with thickly clustered 
individual crystals. his specimen came from Bisbee, Arizona, where 
it was found in a pocket with other similar specimens of an inferior 
quality. It is implanted on a limonitic base. ‘The specimen is not 
large, but its effectiveness as a mineral development is remarkable. 
A specimen of crystallized Andorite from Oruro, Brazil, also secured 
through the Bruce Fund, is astonishingly good. Large, heavy tables 
in this specimen replace the diminutive crystals usually associated with 
this interesting sulph-antimonide of lead and silver. Pink Beryls from 
Haddam, Native Lead (F. A. Canfield) from Sweden, Serpentine and 
the famous Asbestos (Chrysotile) from the Grand Canyon of the Colo- 
rado (F. F. Hunt), with a series of attractive Japanese specimens, 
obtained by exchange with Professor T. Wada of ‘Tokio, Japan, should 
also be mentioned. 
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