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From Carl Cocker, of Greigsville, Livingston county, N. Y. : 

 Rock salt, two large cabinet specimens, from shaft sunk at 



Piffard, Livingston county. 

 Cores from boring for salt at Piffard, at depths of 900 to 

 1,090 feet. 



From A. J. Morrill, of Danville : 



Chrysotile and Serpentine, one box, with sixty specimens, 

 from Danville, Richmond county, Province of Quebec, 

 Canada. 



From D. Lynch, of Olmsteadville, Essex county : 

 Garnet, from Minerva, Essex county. 



From John D. Nutting : 



Garnet, from Warren county. 



From C. C. Stevens, of Keeseville : 



Graphite, Colophonite and White Quartz, from Wills- 

 borough, Essex county. 

 Granite, dressed block, from near Essex county. 



From Dr. J. N. Tilden, Peekskill, N. Y. : 



Stilbite, Peekskill, Westchester county. 



Sillimanite, three specimens of, from Yorktown, West- 

 chester county. 



Pyrrhotite and Chalcopyrite, four specimens of, from mine 

 on Anthony's Nose, northwest of Peekskill. 



From R. McMichael, of Philadelphia : 



Serpentine, " American Verde-Antique, " from Green Ser- 

 pentine Marble Quarry, Hartford county, Md. 



From Daniel T. Smith, of Grand Yiew : 



Sandstone, one block of, from Nyack, N. Y. 



From George Crawford, of Kingston : 



Bluestone, one block of, from Kingston, Ulster county. 

 Bluestone, one block of, from Fox Hollow, Ulster county. 

 Flagging-stone, from Roxbury, Delaware county. 

 Flagging-stone, from Oxford, Chenango county. 



From A. L. Pritchard, president of the Snowflake Marble Com- 

 pany, 157 Broadway, New York city : 



" Snowflake marble, " one large dressed block of, from 

 Pleasant ville, Westchester county. 



