378 Minerals. 



1878. 



Total acquisitions 417, including : 



Specimens of the newly discovered minerals eosphorite, 

 triploidite, dickinsonite and lithiophilite ; from Branchville, 

 Connecticut : presented by Prof. E. S. Dana. 



Coquimbite, erythrite, &c., from Chili : presented by Dr. 

 Joseph Leidy. 



A large, pale-coloured, opaque, altered crystal of enstatite 

 from Bamle, Norway : purchased. 



Krennerite from Transylvania : purchased. 



A large crystal of yellow corundum from Ceylon : purchased. 



A beautiful octahedron of pink fluor on smoky quartz, from 

 Switzerland : purchased. 



1879. 



Total acquisitions 395, including : 



Senarmontite, several large colourless octahedra on the 

 matrix, from Mine d'Hamimad, Constantine, Algeria : presented 

 oy Prof. A. L. O. L. Des Cloizeaux. 



A large series of Indian minerals : transferred from the India 

 Museum, London. 



Sixty-five specimens, mainly zeolites and borates, from Nova 

 Scotia : purchased. 



Films of gold on one face of a large crystalline mass of 

 bismuth ; from Bolivia : purchased. 



Magnetite very brilliant dodecahedra, on the matrix ; from 

 Nordmark, Sweden : purchased. 



1880. 



Total acquisitions 281, including : . 



Bright crystals of columbite from Standish, Maine ; and various 

 other minerals : presented by Prof. N. Story-Mask elyne, F.R.S. 



Various minerals from New Mexico, including turquoise 

 and gold : presented by Mr. F. M. Arny. 



A large, isolated, tabular crystal of apatite, of a pale-violet 

 colour in one part ; from Schwarzenstein, Zillerthal, Tyrol : 

 purchased. 



A dark-green crystal of enstatite from Bamle, Norway : 

 purchased. 



