380 Minerals. 



Fluorescent amber, cut and polished, from Catania, Sicily 

 purchased. 



1884. 



Total acquisitions 535, including : 



Forty gem-stones ruby, spinel, sapphire, etc., mostly faceted : 

 presented by Mr. J. Brukowsky. 



About fifty specimens of agate and chalcedony : presented by 

 Prof. John Ruskin. 



A very large group of prismatic crystals of stibnite from Mount 

 Kosang, near Saiyo, Island of Sikok, South Japan : purchased. 



Amethyst many pyramidal crystals encrusting the matrix ; 

 from Uruguay, South America : purchased. 



Fine crystals of emerald from Stony Point, North Carolina : 

 purchased. 



1885. 



Total acquisitions 495, including : 



Dawsonite, phlogopite (a large crystal), meneghinite, etc., from 

 Canada : presented by Dr. B. J. Harrington. 



Large, dark, scalenohedral crystals of calcite, enclosing copper- 

 pyrites ; from Ecton mine, Leek, Staffordshire : presented by the 

 Proprietors of the mine. 



A very large, simple crystal of staurolite from Brittany : 

 presented by Mr. C. Seidler. 



Tetrahedrite crystals, coated with tarnished copper-pyrites, on 

 the matrix ; from Herodsfoot mine, Cornwall : purchased. 



Brilliant crystals of black smoky quartz, on granite ; from 

 Tavetschthal, Graubiindten, Switzerland : purchased. 



1886. 



Total acquisitions 568, including : 



Thirty-seven specimens of Indian minerals : presented by 

 Mr. H. B. Medlicott, F.R.S. 



Copper minerals from Mammoth mine, Utah : presented by 

 Mr. R. Pearce. 



A large slab of golden-yellow cat's-eye (quartz) and another 

 of blue, asbestiform crocidolite, from the Asbestos Mountains, 

 South Africa : presented by Mr. Sydney Cowper. 



Group of green, fluorescent cubes of fluor on the matrix ; 

 from Weardale, Durham : purchased. 



Brilliant, tabular crystals of wulfenite, of a rich vermilion 

 colour, on the matrix ; from Arizona, U.S.A. : purchased. 



