156 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



New ciystal-forms on Pyrites, Caicite, and Epidote : by L. J. 

 Spencer (p. 1). 



Fibrolite ( = Sillimanite) as a gem-stone from Burma and 

 Ceylon: by L. J, Spencer (p. 107). 



A curious' ciystal from the Binn Valley, Switzerland : bv 

 a. F. Herbert Smitli (p. 40). 



Eiel^eclvite-rliYolite from northern Kordofan, Sudan : bv W. 

 Campbell Smith '(p. 48). 



YII. — Acquisitions. 



1,758 specimens have been acquired, namely, 500 minerals, 

 621 rocks, 540 micro-sections of rocks, 93 meteorites, and 4 

 artificial products. 



Exchanges of specimens have been arranged with the Royal 

 Ontario Museum of Mineralogy, Toronto, Canada ; the Museum 

 of Practical Geology, London; and the United States National 

 Museum, Washington, D.C. 



The following mineral names added to the Museum List were 

 previously not represented in the collection : — 



Amosite, cveedite, ferrazite, inyoite, manganapatite, phos- 

 phoferrite, phosphophyllite, phosphosiderite, schoharite, temis- 

 kamite, uvanite. 



The specimens acquired by presentation (arranged alpha- 

 betically according to donors) and by exchange, and a selection 

 of the more important of those obtained by purchase are as 

 follow : — 



Minerals. 

 By Presentation. 



Chalcedony, as an encrustation on the surface of the desert, 

 Fayiim, Egypt : by Dr. C. W. Andreivs, F.R.S. 



Further instalments from the donor's collection of zeolites, 

 namely, 103 specimens, representing 46 localities ; 33 specimens 

 (aragonite, barytes, galena, hemimorphite, pyrites, vanadinite, 

 witherite, etc.) from Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, some of them 

 recently collected by the donor; cerussite from Weardale, Co. 

 Durham; bayldonite from Tsumeb, S.W. Africa; a zoned crystal 

 of green corundum from Siam : by F. N. Ashcroft, Esq. 



Sapphire crystals in matrix from Mogok, Upper Burma : by 

 A. L. Bacon, Esq. 



A series of 25 specimens of Australian minerals, mainly from 

 the mining districts of north Queensland, including good crystals 

 of chillagite, chessylite, scheelite, cassiterite, molybdenite, topaz, 

 etc. : by Rev. C. C. Barclay. 



A scaleuohedron of caicite : by S. F. Barnes, Esq. 



A series of 13 specimens (galena, pyrites, blende, quartz, cai- 

 cite, aragonite, and pseudomorph of iiemimorphite after caicite) 

 from Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire : by Robert Broirn, Esq. 



A small collection of minerals, mainly fragments of gem- 

 stones from Ceivlon (including fibrolite, zircon, rorundum, etc.): 

 by Lt.-Col. C. F. Call, late R.E. 



Stalactites from a cave on Mangaia Island, Cook Islands, 

 Pacific: by Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Christian. 



