384 Minerals. 



An extensive collection of crystals of calcite, being part of 

 the material used by Prof. F. Sansoni for his memoirs on the 

 crystallography of that species : purchased. 



Finely crystallised specimens of lorandite and realgar, from 

 Allchar, Macedonia : purchased. 



1896. 



Total acquisitions 412, including: 



Crystallised masses and groups of chessylite and malachite 

 from Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona: presented by Dr. 

 James Douglas. 



A large, regularly developed cube of purple fluor, from 

 Weardale, Durham : presented by Miss Caroline Birley. 



A large suite of crystals of edingtonite, several of large size, 

 from Bohlet, Sweden : purchased. 



A well-crystallised specimen of cromfordite from Monte Poni. 

 Sardinia: purchased. 



1897. 



Total acquisitions 896, including : 



Specimens of gold ores from the various gold-fields of 

 Australia : presented by Mr. J. C. F. Johnson. 



New minerals (tripuhyite, derbylite and lewisite) from Brazil : 

 presented by Dr. E. Hussak. 



A specimen consisting on one side of yellow, scalenohedral 

 crystals of calcite, and on the other of small curved rhombohedra of 

 pink dolomite together with cubes of galena and small tetrahedra 

 of copper-pyrites ; also a large, isolated, scalenohedron of yellow 

 calcite; both from Joplin, Jasper County, Missouri : purchased. 



A large, isolated, twinned crystal of adularia, from 

 Switzerland : purchased. 



A crystal of erubescite from Frossnitz-Alpe, Pregratten, Tyrol : 

 purchased. 



A selection (200 specimens) from the collection formed by 

 Bergrath F. C. L. Koch ; chiefly from the Harz : purchased. 



1898. 



Total acquisitions 255, including : 



A large suite of very delicately crystallised specimens of 

 aragonite from the Sterkfontein caves, Barnett, Transvaal : 

 presented by Mr. H. P. Thomasset. 



