366 Minerals. 



1841. 



Total acquisitions 158, including: 



A cup made of jadeite : presented by Lieut. -Col. H. Burney, 

 to whom it had been given by the King of Ava. 



Crystallised native silver from Kongsberg, Norway : purchased. 



Faceted stones (diamond, ruby, cymophane, sapphire, zircon, 

 topaz and dichroite) : purchased. 



Euclase, ilmenite, magnetite and topaz, from Brazil : pur- 

 chased. 



Group of crystals of black tourmaline and white apatite 

 from Bovey Tracey, Devonshire : purchased. 



1842. 



Total acquisitions 209, including : 



Harmotome, strontianite, &c., from Strontian : presented by 

 Sir Robert H. Inglis, Bart., F.R.S. 



Tscheffkinite from the Ilmen Mountains, Russia : presented 

 by Mr. H. Christie. 



Various minerals and rocks, from India : presented by 

 Dr. P. M. Benza. 



Indian idol, carved in sapphire : purchased. 



1843. 



Total acquisitions 126, including : 



Carnelian, jasper and chalcedony, from India : presented by 

 Mr. S. Law. 



Mispickel, allanite and gadolinite, from Norway : presented 

 by Prof. B. M. Keilhau and Prof. T. Scheerer. 



Fine crystals of linarite on the matrix, from Roughten Gill, 

 Caldbeck, Cumberland : purchased. 



1844. 



Total acquisitions 205, including : 



Three specimens of greenockite : presented by the Earl of 

 Cathcart. 



A table with stand, made of cannel coal from the Wemyss 

 mine, Fifeshire : purchased. 



Two isolated crystals of euclase from Brazil : purchased. 



Greenish-yellow serpentine pseudomorphous after large crystals 

 of olivine ; from Snarum, Norway : purchased. 



