Minerals. 393 



About 200 specimens of volcanic rocks from Ireland, collected 

 by Mr. P. Doran : purchased. 



A series of about 100 specimens of schists and slates, and 

 phonolitic volcanic rocks containing riebeckite and segirine, 

 collected by Dr. W. Schimper in the neighbourhood of Adowa 

 and Axum, Abyssinia : purchased. [They have been described 

 by Mr. G. T. Prior in Mineralogical Magazine, 1899, vol. xii, 

 pp. 253-273.] 



1870. 



Total acquisitions 121, including : 



A collection of about 100 specimens of volcanic bombs and 

 lavas from the Laacher See : purchased. 



1872. 



Total acquisitions 973, including : 



About 900 miscellaneous rock-specimens (chiefly volcanic), 

 from German localities (Rhenish Prussia, Baden, Hesse, Nassau, 

 Saxony) : purchased. 



1873. 



Total acquisitions 303, including : 



About 200 specimens of dolerites, schists, conglomerates, etc., 

 from South Africa (Namaqualand, Transvaal, etc.), collected by 

 Mr. E. J. Dunn : by exchange. 



A supplementary collection (about 100 specimens) of volcanic 

 products from the Laacher See : purchased. 



1874. 



Total acquisitions 288, including : 



A small collection of rock-fragments from Mull and Arran, 

 illustrating his papers in the Quart. Journ. GeoL Soc., on the 

 Tertiary eruptive rocks of the Western Islands of Scotland : 

 presented by Prof. J. W. Judd, C.B., F.R.S. 



About fifty specimens of basaltic rocks from Fifeshire and 

 Skye : presented by Mr. Thomas Davies. 



A collection of "Exeter trap" and other volcanic rocks, 

 (about thirty specimens) from Devonshire : presented by Mr. W. 

 Vicary. 



A collection of about thirty-five specimens of volcanic rocks 

 from the Charnwood Forest district, Leicestershire : by exchange. 



