386 Minerals. 



A group of cubes of purple fluor, encrusted with brilliant 

 bipyramidal crystals of quartz, on a matrix of dolomite ; from 

 Weardale, Durham : purchased. 



A suite of brilliant crystals of crocoite, of long prismatic habit, 

 some isolated, others confusedly grouped together ; from Dundas, 

 Montagu County, Tasmania : purchased. 



Stolzite, a large piece of matrix encrusted with crystals of 

 two kinds : (a) scattered crystals, of pyramidal habit with basal 

 plane, and of a red colour ; (b) a crystalline crust of thin, tabular 

 crystals of a yellow colour ; from Broken Hill, New South "Wales : 

 purchased. 



1901. 



Total acquisitions 311, including : 



Rare minerals from Greenland : by exchange. 



Fine beryls and rubellite, from Russia : purchased. 



Fine suite of calcites and barytes, from Cumberland : pur- 

 chased. 



A crystal of topaz, weighing 137 Ib. (62 kilograms) ; from 

 Ssetersdalen, Norway : purchased. 



1902. 



Total acquisitions 603, including : 



A collection of gold tellurides and other gold ores from 

 Western Australia : presented by the Government of Western 

 Australia and various Western Australian companies. 



A large, yellow crystal of barytes from Dalmellington mine, 

 Frizington, Cumberland : purchased. 



Calaverite with coloradoite, petzite and tennantite, on a 

 matrix of greenish sericite-schist ; from the Associated Gold 

 Mines of Western Australia, Kalgoorlie, W. Australia : pur- 

 chased. 



Albite, quartz and sphene a large group of crystals on the 

 matrix ; from Ofenhorn, Binnenthal, Switzerland : purchased. 



An aggregate of very large, white crystals of aragonite, with 

 some sulphur, from Sicily : purchased. 



A fine group of large, tabular crystals of epidote of a dark 

 green colour, with small crystals of quartz j from Prince of Wales 

 Island, Alaska : purchased. 



A suite of tourmalines from California : purchased. 



