80 Report on the Exhibition of Gems. 



8 (2) Large blue sapphires (one being green across the axis). 



Ovens. 



9 A star sapphire. . Ovens. 



10 A fine dark blue sapphire (in hexagonal crystal). Ballarat. 



11 A green sapphire (showing pearly reflections). Ovens. 



12 A Barkly-ite ruby (red corundum). Ovens. 



13 Fine green sapphire, weight itf carats, being a fragment 



of large sapphire measuring 1|- inches across the prism, 

 now in Mr. Milner Stephen's cabinet. Jim Crow 

 Creek. 



14 (2) Small blue sapphires. Fryer's Creeh. 



15 (4) Pale blue topazes. Ovens. 



16 (3) White topazes (water-worn). Ovens. 



17 A very large blue topaz, weighing 1 oz. 10 dwts. (water- worn). 



Dunolly. 



18 A blue topaz (showing the "striae" along the prism). Upper 



Tarra. 



19 Large white topaz (water worn). Ovens. 



20 (9) Essonites (orange-yellow garnets). Ovens. 



21 (24) Almandine garnets (fine colour). Ovens. 



22 (4) Do. do. (in icosi-tetrahedral crystals). Ovens, 



23 (4) Blood-red garnets (pyropes). Ovens. 



24 (6) Large precious garnets. Ovens. 



25 (7) Almandine garnets (fine colour). Ballarat. 



2^ (15) Common garnets (in dodecahedral crystals). Ovens. 



27 (2) Pieces of granite, containing almandine garnets. Ovens. 



28 (9) Blood-red garnets (pyropes). Ballarat. 



29 (2) Brilliant amethysts (in hexagonal crystals). Ovens. 



30 (8) Colophonites (wine-yellow garnets). Ovens. 



31 (3) Black spineUes (automalites). Ballarat. 



32 (8) Do. do. Ovens. 



33 (4) Deep red hyacinths (zircons). Ovens. 



34 (2) Violet spinelles, or almandine rubies (one an octahedral 



crystal). Ovens. 



35 (11) Deep red hyacinths (zircons.) Ballarat. 



36 (100) Small do do. Daylesford. 



37 A fire opal. Ovens. 



38 (4) Black tourmalines, in striated prisms. Ovens. 



39 Quartz crystal (with both terminal planes). Ovens. 



40 Quartz crystal (cut). Mount A lexander. 



41 Darling-ite (species of lydian or touchstone). Ovens. 



42 A star ruby, showing lines of structure in hexagons. Ceylon. 



(Supposed to be a tinique specimen.) 

 Memo. — I have mislaid a black centred star sapphire, and a 

 beautiful compound crystal of red spinelle or balas ruby (which I 

 found amongst some tin ore). Ovens. — G.M.S. 



