Catalogues of Rocks and Minerals. 271 



128. Several specimens of rock composed of well defi- 

 ned crystals of black hornblende imbedded in white granu- 

 lar quartz, containinp; occasionally crystals of garnet and 

 spangles of mica. We scarcely know what to call thi- ag- 

 gregate. It lorms very beautiful specimens, and looks as if 

 it might have belonged to gneiss. 



129. Rock composed of Tremolite, garnet and aclyno- 

 lite crystallized. 



120. Black Tourmaline in milky quartz — ^Hawley. 



131. Gneiss rock with hornblende — Plainfield. 



132. Irised Quartz- — Plainfield. 



133. Mica slate — Cummington. 



134. Stalactite, (Lanesborough Cave) 



135. Rock composed of minute crystals of hornblende 

 interspersed with granular quartz. 



136. Chlorite Slate (Cummington) 



137. Mica, nearly black, &;c. &c. 



IX. From Doctor T. D. Porter. 



Crystals of the Zircon of Buncomb County, North- 

 Carolina — specimens from this locality are described page 

 229, Vol. III.— Note, 



X. Doctor J. Allen, Brattleborough, Vt. 



No. 1. Schorl in Quartz, Brattleborough, Vt. large and fine. 



2. Hornblende, New-Fane, Vt. 



3. Staurotide in mica slate, Chesterfield, N. H. large 



crystals. 



4. Scaly Talc, New-Fane, Vt. 



5. Granite, Hinsdale, N. H. 



6. Zoisite, Wardsborough, Vt. very large and distinct 



crystals. 



7. Acicular Actynolite in Talc, Newfane, very hand- 



some. 



8. Mica, Hinsdale, N. H. 



9. Fibrous Actynolite, Windham, Vt. very good. 



10. Granular Quartz, Vernon, Vt. 



1 1. Mica slate, passing into granular Quartz, West Riv* 



er, N. H. — Staurotide. 



12. Sienite Nevi^fane, Vt. 



