LivEnRsIDGE.— On. some of the N. Z. Minerals in the Otago Museum, — 497 
Hornblende, —Dunedin. 
Portion of an embedded crystal. 
Diallage.—Dun Mountain. 
In large confused crystals, with well-marked lamellar structure. 
Hypersthene,—Warp Point, Kaduku River. 
In small confused dark green-coloured crystals. 
Chloritic Schist.—Deep Creek, Kakapo Lake. 
Composed of green-coloured chlorite in part, passing into fibrous, wavy, 
and interlacing crystals of hornblende. 
Olivine.*—Dunedin. 
Brown-coloured embedded grains, possessing a green shade; fragmentary 
or imperfectly-developed crystals. " 
Steatite.—Nelson. 
Massive, with somewhat foliated structure; greenish in colour. Should 
be of commercial value for the manufacture of gas-burners, the preparation 
of French chalk, ete. 
Serpentine.—Windley Creek. 
Massive; of a dull green colour; translucent. This is the mineral 
serpentine, and not the rock which is known by that name. 
Marmolite.{—Anita Bay. 
A foliated form of serpentine, which resembles nephrite (the mineral 
known as jade or greenstone, the pounamu of the Maoris) in some 
respects ; it is, however, at once distinguished by its softness. 
Green in colour, and possesses a hardness of about 4. 
Marmolite ?§ (Steatite ?). 
Pale green folia, on serpentine, containing hypersthene ; greasy feel ; 
hardness about 8:5 ; rather brittle. 
Chloropal.—Presented by Captain Fraser. 
Of a yellowish-green colour ; somewhat foliated cone-in-cone structure ; 
sectile ; soft; easily polished, even by rubbing with the thumb; adheres 
slightly to tongue: when immersed in water gives off air-bubbles, and 
becomes translucent. ; 
Before the blow-pipe does not decrepitate ; blackens immediately, and 
fuses with difficulty in thin edges, with slight intumescence, to a black 
glassy slag. 
Mica (Muscovite).—Charleston, West Coast. 
In large plates; brown with greenish shades and metallic lustre. 
* Contains chromium, Rep. N.Z. Exh., p. 413. T Geol. Reports. 
i Rep. N.Z. Exh., 1865, p. 412. . $ Rep. N.Z. Exh., 1865, p. 412. 
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