Third Supplement to Dana’s Mineralogy. 249 
3. Descriptions of Species. 
Attayrre [Min. p. 208, and Suppl. 1, mJ. — Description tg Frere dhe of Allmit from 
At Hel 
Norway, by D. Forbes and T. Dahil (Nyt. Mag. f. Nat. x 13) n crys- 
tals Wuletinies 4 inches long and 2 to 1 in. thick,“ ith et and mic a he 
oa Screen tou and vse» massive specimens have nee, =3 46—2-48, 
n fro ing in red orthoclase, gave H.=6, Nair 86—-2°93, 
a Sedieh -black color ‘hd gece “gray streak, and afforded on analysis 
Bi Se fe xX e: de, Dio dS... Geis Oe 
3103 724 371 929 22:98 435 102 639 12:24 alkali and loss 1°75 
ate occurs at Criffel in Scotland in small crystals in syenite and feldspathic _ 
; &.P. Greg, Jr. 
Aum [p. 38 eatin in the caves of the Unaka Mts., Eastern Tennessee, es- 
sare at Sevier, where masses of a cubic foot may be obt ained; also in the 
k slate of Middle Tennessee; in caves along the valleys and gorge ‘ i the 
treams in DeKalb, Coffee, Franklin, and other counties.—Safford’s Rep, p. 1 
Atunogen [p. 881].—Occurs at Vesuvius with alum, Scacchi, op. cit., By 
“A white fibrous alunogen (?) occurs Caeae 2 at Smoky Mountain, sites Co., 
N. Carolina, According to Mr. Faber, there are ‘tons to be blasted at that t locality, 
—(Prof. J. C. Booth, in a letter to the aut 
LVITE. a He 
Naresté in Norway. In dimetric mort like pnt Fracture — B= 
d. G i , becomi wen 
Lustre greasy; opaque, on the edges a B.B. in the platisuen *nfusible, 
color somewhat paler With nae rax ss greenish yellow while hot, colorless 
when cold, os salt of phosphorus . sae glass, green, and finally colorless on 
oe cooling. With tin no titanium ares In fine powder, not o prpiens by the acids, 
: An ‘ae hag of the mineral on a very sina portion and part of it somewhat altered 
" Al,Be Fo Ar Ge vy Th?) Ga CuSn H 
20:33 1411 966 3:92 O27 22:01 15:13 0-40 trace 932=9724 
| rina NDALUSITE [p. 257 and ant 1, onl ae SP wom (1) of the Andalusite of Katha- 
cone — Wunsiedel, hs near Meissen, and (3) of Braunsdorf 
near Freiberg, by E. E. Sch at has + xev ii, 118): 
) Si 1 Fe Oa Mig 
$ BY BS Gh 8B Ms Bh ext 
‘34 55825 3 22 1 4 -= =311 
, . ted 5988 s:33sCOG1SsOIT_ = 9956 G. = 3.07 
Oxygen ratio for the silica and ery ne? (1) 2:3 06, (2) git oa (3) 2: 2°86, 
ese ae poding nearly to the formula [ Allowing that the protoxyds are com- 
2:3] with purt of the silica, Nos. pine vai give anabenaioe ts nearly the ratio 
ANotesire —Kokscharov figures a fine crystal of Anglesite 
from Mc on i Sr ini (i alee ii, 163). hay ated the occurrence of the 
ia ves the angles J: J=103° 434’, O:1=115° 35’. 
abe 39 .—Occurs in New Jersey. at Mt. Pleasant Mine, 
penile a bo, mse “set the junetion of the Rockaway River Sins the 
— Meadow 6 anil s of a mile from the canal. se 
“Sora 6 nei in diameter. Aputite is also abundant with the magnetite o 
yee —N. J. Geol. Rep. 1856. 
Atacowire [p. 448, and Suppl. 11].—Pseudomorphs of the scaly massive 
ate of lin lime zh srry a Goran) after Gy oerald, are described b; G. Rive 
in Pogs. Ann. xevii, v7 Near WiederstaJt in Mansfeld, a fine gyps 
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