398 Minerals. 



1887. 



Total acquisitions 664, including : 



A collection of about eighty typical rock-specimens from 

 Sweden : presented by the Director of the Geological Survey of 

 Sweden. 



About 200 specimens of phonolites, basalts, etc., from the 

 Island of Fernando Noronha, collected and presented by Mr. 

 H. N. Ridley. [Specimens belonging to this collection have 

 been described by Mr. T. Davies in Journ. Linn. Soc., 1890, 

 vol. xxvii, pp. 86-94, and by Mr. G. T. Prior in Mineralogical 

 Magazine, 1897, vol. xi, pp. 171-75.] 



A large series (about 400 specimens), of volcanic rocks from 

 Japan : purchased. 



1888. 



Total acquisitions 595, including : 



A series of about 100 specimens of basaltic lavas, etc., from 

 the Azores : purchased. 



Collections of volcanic rocks from the Malverns, Inner 

 Hebrides, Charnwood Forest and the Lizard : purchased. 



1889. 



Total acquisitions 505, including : 



A collection (about 133 specimens) of granites, quartz-felsites, 

 etc., from China and Borneo: presented by Mr. J. W. Bassett- 

 Smith, Surgeon, R.N. 



About sixty specimens of limestones, schists, etc., collected in 

 Somaliland by Captain S. King during an expedition from Zaila 

 to Mount Eilo: presented by Prof. T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S. 

 [Described by Miss C. A. Raisin in Geological Magazine, 1888, 

 p. 414.] 



A small collection of granites, felsites, etc., from Sokotra, 

 made by Colonel M. Gosset : presented by Prof. T. Rupert Jones, 

 F.R.S. [Described by Miss C. A. Raisin in Geological Magazine, 

 1888, p. 504.] 



A collection of rocks from Madagascar : presented by the 

 Rev. J. Wills. 



Gneisses, schists, granites and diorites from Guernsey : 

 collected and presented by Mr. B. B. Woodward. 



A series of volcanic rocks from Germany : purchased. 



