Minerals. 401 



A large series of granites, gabbros, schists, limestones, &c., 

 om the Island of Giglio, collected by Prof. C. de Stefani, of 

 Florence : purchased. 



1895. 



Total acquisitions 708, including : 



A series of rock-specimens from Devonshire, selected to show 

 the relations between the Devonian and metamorphic rocks : 

 collected and presented by Mr. A. R. Hunt. 



Yariolitic diabases from the Fichtelgebirge (described in 

 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1891, vol. xlvii, p. 45), and schists 

 and variolites from the Cottian Alps (described in Quart. Journ. 

 Geol Soc., 1890, vol. xlvi, p. 95) : collected and presented by 

 Prof. J. W. Gregory, F.R.S. 



A collection of 115 specimens illustrating the contact-effects 

 of the granite and syenite in the schist-region of the Elb- 

 thalgebirge : purchased. 



1896. 



Total acquisitions 632, including : 



About 100 specimens of gneisses, schists, dolerites, etc., from 

 Sierra Leone : collected and presented by Mr. G. F. Scott Elliot. 

 [Described by Miss C. A. Raisin in Geological Magazine, 1893, 

 p. 440.] 



A series of granites, sandstones, camptonitic dyke-rocks, etc., 

 from Egypt, collected by Mr. G. F. Scott Elliot : presented by 

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

 1893, p. 436.] 



1897. 



Total acquisitions 1663, including: 



A series of specimens (with sections) of the deposits of the 

 Nile Delta, obtained during the boring operations at Zagazig 

 undertaken by the Royal Society : presented by the Royal 

 Society (Delta Boring Committee). 



A series of about 300 small specimens of rocks and minerals 

 from the Karakoram Himalayas : collected and presented by Sir 

 W. Martin Conway. [Described by Miss C. A. Raisin and Prof. 

 T. G. Bonney, F.R.S,, in Proc. Boy. Soc., 1894, vol. Iv, p. 468.] 



472 thin sections of rocks (mostly veinstones, elvans, green- 

 stones and granites of Cornwall) from the collection of the late 

 Mr. John Arthur Phillips, F.R.S. : presented by Mr. A. G. Phillips. 

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