Minerals, 389 



1811. 



A collection of about fifty specimens of schists, slates, lime- 

 stones, &c., from the North and East Coast of Australia, made 

 by Captain M. Flinders, R.N., of H.M.S. Investigator, in 1801-3 : 

 presented by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. [See 

 Flinders, Voyage to Terra Australia, London, 1814.] 



1816. 



A small collection of gneisses, sclaists, &c., made by Dr. C. 

 Smith and Mr. Tudor at the mouth of the Congo in 1816 : 

 presented by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. 

 [Described by Mr. C. Konig in Captain Tuckey's Narrative of an 

 Expedition to explore the River Zaire, usually called the Congo, 

 appendix vi, pp. 486-488, London, 1818.] 



1820. 



A series of nepheline-syenites and other rocks from Sierra 

 Leone, collected by Dr. H. Nicoll : presented by Earl Bathurst. 



1821. 



Rock-specimens collected in the Expeditions to the Polar 

 Regions : presented by the Lords Commissioners of the 

 Admiralty. [A description of the rock-specimens, collected 

 by Sir W. E. Parry during the expedition of 1819-20, was 

 given by Mr. C. Konig in the Quart. Journ. Sci., 1823, vol. xv, 

 pp. 11-22.] 



1823. 



Rock-specimens collected by Sir W. E. Parry during his last 

 voyage to the Polar Seas : presented by the Lords Commissioners 

 of the Admiralty. 



A large and representative series of volcanic products (lavas 

 and ashes, &c. of various eruptions) from Vesuvius, Ischia and 

 the Campi Flegrei : collected by, and purchased from, Prof. T. 

 Monticelli. 



