terminating in 3-sided pyramids. 
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having been obviously implanted by the other. One of the specimens 
I have seen is sixinches long by two and a half inches diameter. 
(4.) y Staurotide in crosses at 90° and imperfect prisms occurs 
abundantly in light colored mica slate, in Grantham, about two miles 
from Meriden village. 
The single ¢rystals have a dark red 
rhombic cester,. surrounded by @ 
Dana’s Staurotide, Grantham, N. H. 
Mineralogy, with a modification only on the obtuse solid angles. 
(5.) White Staurotide, with similar modifications, has been brought 
me from an unknown localit - 
6.) Chrysoberyl.—This rare mineral occurs in the granite of Orange 
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layers of little value, appearing as if the veins with the rock had been 
much abraded. Large grouped bladed crystals of fine blue and white 
) 
covery of-this mineral in masses several inches in diameter. is 1 
believed to be the first notice of its occurrence in North American 
mineralogy, east of the Rocky Mountains, and a more complete account 
will be given in a future number of this Journal. 
Minerals from India.—(1.) Apophyllite. From Rev. Mr. Burgess, 
Aim. missionary at Ahmednugger, India, ave received unusually 
large crystals of Apophyllite an inch in diameter, with the terminal 
. solid angles deeply replaced. 
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Natrolite from the same region, in hemispheres seven inches 
in diameter, also in sectors of three inches radius and of the most 
beautiful lustre and whiteness. pond 
(3.) Quartz, also, with the two last from the trap of the | 
The specimen is a stalactite three inches in diameter with a ha 
center, having the exterior entirely covered with crystals | 
