402 Minerals. 



A series of about 100 specimens illustrating the geology of 

 the Southern Transvaal : collected and presented by Dr. F. H. 

 Hatch. [Described in Quart. Journ. Geol Soc., 1898, vol. liv, 

 pp. 73-99.] 



A series of about seventy small rock-specimens from Siam ; 

 collected by Mr. H. Warington Smyth : presented by the Koyal 

 Department of Mines and Geology, Siam. 



A series of over 300 specimens of gneisses, schists, slates, etc., 

 from Italian and Alpine localities, collected by Cavaliere G. P. 

 Jervis to supplement the series previously obtained from him : 

 purchased. 



Seventy-three polished slabs of modern marbles from Italy 

 and Switzerland, and of antique marbles from the ruins of 

 ancient Rome : purchased. 



1898. 



Total acquisitions 1022, including : 



A large, polished block of orbicular granite from Kangasniemi 

 Finland : presented by Baron A. B. de Schulten. 



A large series of rock-specimens illustrating the geology of 

 the neighbourhood of Portsoy, Banffshire : collected and presented 

 by Mr. J. Buie. 



A series of rock-specimens from Mongolia and the Province 

 of Liao Tong, Manchuria : collected and presented by Mr. W. H. 

 Shockley. 



1899. 



Total acquisitions 490, including : 



A large polished slab of green marble from La Toma, 

 Argentina : presented by Dr. F. P. Moreno. 



A column of basalt, 14^ feet (4*4 meters) long, from Rhenish 

 Prussia : presented by *<he Directors of the London Basalt Stone 

 Company. 



A collection of over 100 specimens of gneisses, schists, 

 ferruginous shales, etc., from the Ingwenya Berg and Embabaan 

 district, West Swaziland : presented by Mr. Sydney Ryan. 

 [Described by Prof. T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S., in Geological 

 Magazine, 1899, pp. 105-111.] 



A small series of volcanic rocks and limestones from the 

 neighbourhood of Lake Urumia, Persia : collected and presented 

 by Mr. R. T. Giinther. [Described by Mr. G. T. Prior in Geogr. 

 Journ., 1899, vol. xiv, pp. 521-523.] 



A series of about 60 specimens of andesitic lavas, etc.. from 



