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10. [11.] Simple and double sulphur salts, formed by the sulphurets 

 of antimony or arsenic, with basic sulphurets of electro-positive metals. 

 Jamesonite ; geocronite ; kobelite ; boulangerite ; zinkenite ; silver- 

 blende, red or ruby silver, &c. ; bournonite ; polybasite. 



11. [49.] One half is occupied by carbonate of zinc or zinc-spar; 

 calamine. The other half contains carbonates of lead or lead-spar; 

 carbonate of bismuth ; rare carbonates of cerium ; of yttria on orthite 

 from Ytterby, Sweden. 



12. [12.] Grey copper or fahl-ore. Sulphurets of arsenic ; yellow and 

 red orpiment ; arsenio- sulphurets. 



13. [48.] Brown spar. Carbonate of iron ; carbonate of manganese, 

 crystallized and in globular and botryoidal shapes, of various shades of 

 rose colour, on sulphuret of manganese, &c. 



14. [13.] Oxides and hydrous oxides of manganese. 



** There is one table of minerals, near the north-east window, not 

 labelled. 



The four following tables in this room stand parallel with 

 the windows, and are numbered consecutively from east to 

 west. 



ORGANIC REMAINS. 



TABLE CASES 15, 16, 17. Fossil Birds of New Zealand. 

 These three cases contain a fine series of vertebrae, bones of 

 the extremities, <fcc., dug up by Walter Mantell, Esq., of Wel- 

 lington, from a bed of volcanic sand (menaccanite), on the 

 west coast of the North Island of New Zealand, near the 

 mouth of the river Waingongoro. 



15. Among the interesting relics in this case the visitor 

 should notice the femur, tibia, and fibula of the same young 

 individual of one of the most gigantic species of Moa. The 

 bones of the hind limbs in this case belong to several species 

 of birds, and are in a remarkably perfect state. 



16. Contains the only known skull of a most extraordinary 

 type of bird, which is referred to the genus Dinornis : the 

 other cranium, with mandibles approaching somewhat in 

 configuration to those of the Cassowary, is the generic type of 

 Palapteryx. 



In this case are the skull, and bones of the sternum, wings, 

 and legs, of the Notornis Mantelli, of which genus the only 

 known recent example has lately been obtained by Mr. Walter 

 Mantell. (See Frontispiece of this Volume.) 



There are also tarsometatarsals of a remarkable extinct genus 

 named Aptornis : bones of a species of Nestor, and of the 



