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A great deal more might be done before we return home, and even 

 then our winter Entomologising would not be exhausted ; but perhaps 

 we have done enough for one day — sufficient, at least, to indicate what 

 may be accomplished, and to prove that no Entomologist need stand 

 idle at this season for want of out-door occupation. 



THE MINERALS OF THE MIDLANDS. 



BY C. J. WOODWARD, B.SC. 



I propose calling the attention of readers of '• The Midland Naturalist" 

 to the mineral localities of the district in which this journal mainly 

 circulates. As regards those places with which I am acquainted, I 

 shall in some detail describe the minerals to be met with, but the 

 greater number of localities will be derived from observations of others. 

 In a task such as I propose, one's first duty is to ascertain what has 

 already been done in the same direction, and here, so far as I know, 

 only one work giving mineral localities in the Midland Counties has 

 been published. The work in question is entitled " The Mineralogist's 

 Directory, or a Guide to the Principal Mineral Localities in the United 

 Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland," by Townshend M. Hall, 

 F.G.S., to be obtained from the author, Pilton, Barnstaple, price 

 five shillings. 



Mr. Hall has very kindly given me permission to make use of his 

 work, so as a preliminary I have compiled the following tables from 

 the information given in the body of the book. The use of the tables 

 will be best seen by an example. Suppose it required to know what 

 minerals have been met with at Matlock — look in the Derbyshire table 

 for Matlock, and then where the letter H occurs look to the top of the 

 table for the mineral to which it refers, it will be seen then that at 

 Matlock the following minerals have been met with : — Aragonite, 

 Barytes, Bitumen, Blende, Calamine, Calcite, Cerussite, Chessylite, 

 Fluor, Gypsum, and Smithsonite. 



For the purpose I have in view I shall consider the following counties 

 as forming The Midlands : — Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Leicestershire. 

 Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwick- 

 shire, and Worcestershire. 



I take this opportunity of asking the co-operation of the readers of 

 " The Midland Naturalist " in forming a complete and satisfactory index 

 to the Minerals of the Midlands. Any information concerning minerals 

 to be met with in the district will be gladly received and acknowledged. 



Birmingham and Midland Institute, 



Birmingham, March 15th, 1881. 



