Minerals. 365 



1837. 



Total acquisitions 378,* including : 



Magnesite, and other minerals from India : presented by 

 Dr. P. M. Benza. 



Gold, diamond, and other minerals from Brazil : presented by 

 Dr. Jose Estevao Cliffe. 



Apatite from St. Gotthard and Ehrenfriedersdorf ; rhodo- 

 chrosite from Schneeberg, Saxony ; copper-glance from Cornwall ; 

 chessylite : purchased. 



1838. 



Total acquisitions 250, including : 



Twenty-four Sicilian ambers : presented by Mr. G. Gravine. 



Witherites from Northumberland : presented by Mr. Robert 

 Stokoe and Mr. Benjamin Leadbeater. 



A large mass of crystallised pyromorphite, of a rich green 

 colour, from Hofsgrund, Baden : purchased. 



A large twin crystal of quartz (rock-crystal), grouped with 

 simple crystals on the matrix, from La Gardette, Dep. Isere, 

 France : purchased. 



1839. 



Total acquisitions 194, including : 



A series of Egyptian minerals and ores : presented by Sir 

 J. Gardner Wilkinson, F.R.S. 



A very large dodecahedral crystal of almandine, from 

 Fahlun, Sweden : purchased. 



Various American minerals : purchased. 



Native silver, from Norway : purchased. 



1840. 



Total acquisitions 183, including : 



Crystallised vivianite in the interior of an Irish deer's tooth, 

 from Ireland : presented by Sir Philip de M. G. Egerton, Bart., 

 F.R.S. 



A crystal of diamond in the matrix, from Brazil : purchased. 



* The General Register of the new acquisitions for the Museum was 

 begun in 1837. 



