2 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [oct. 1, 
Dr. N. L, Brirron spoke of the fact, that all the Academy’s 
publications were now brought up to date, as a matter for con- 
gratulation. 
THE CHAIRMAN, referring to the mastodon tooth mentioned 
in the minutes of the last meeting, stated that further study 
showed it to be not a milk-tooth, but one of the sixth series. 
ProF, MARTIN announced the death, during the past summer, 
of Mr. Ropert DINWIDDIE, for many years Corresponding Sec- 
retary of the Society, under its old organization as the ‘‘Ly- 
ceum.” 
He also read a communication from Mr. GreorGE F. Kunz, 
as follows :— 
Mr. Kunz announces that Mr. J. A. D. Stephenson of 
Statesville, North Carolina, who first called the attention of 
Northern mineralogists, in 1875, to the green beryls in North 
Carolina, has kindly loaned him a crystal weighing 25.4 oz., of 
dark green beryl, part of which would furnish gems of some 
size. It was found on the 12th of January, 1888, by a farmer, 
in plowing near Little Robinet’s Store and Little River Church, 
near Russell Gap Road, Alexander Co., N.C. (A photograph of 
the crystal was exhibited.) This locality is about ten miles from 
the Stony Point emerald mine, and twelve miles from Miller 
Farm, where emeralds also occur, and is the largest beryl afford- 
ing gems that has been found in the State. 
Mr. Kunz announces the following mineralsas new from Man- 
hattan Island:—Seams of carbonate of lime satin spar, one-third 
of an inch thick and five inches square, occurring at the Ship 
Canal, Kingsbridge ; also from the same locality, pyrrhotite in 
fine distinct crystals implanted on and enclosed in translucent 
and transparent scalenohedral calcite crystals. 
From 86th Street and Fourth Avenue, translucent oligoclase, 
penetrated by blades of black hornblende; these specimens, 
when polished, resemble the hornblende in quartz from Cumber- 
land, R. I.:—dark leek-green prehnite, in seams one-third of an 
inch thick and five inches across, also in isolated crystals on 
gneiss:—siderite in very distinct simple rhombohedral crystals 
with curved faces, implanted on mica schist. 
