194 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



VIII. — A cquisitions. 



1,105 specimens have been acquired, namely : — 



733 minerals, 366 rocks, and 6 meteorites. 



Exchanges of specimens have been made with the Hun- 

 garian National Museum, Budapest ; Field Museum of Natural 

 History, Chicago (through Prof. O. C Farrington) ; Col. 

 Washington A. Roebling, of Trenton, New Jersey ; Signor L. 

 Magistretti, of Milan ; and Mr. A. J. Williamson, of Rushworth, 

 Victoria, Australia. 



The specimens acquired by presentation (arranged alpha- 

 betically according to donors), by bequest, and by exchange, 

 and the more important of those obtained by purchase are 



as follows : — 



Minerals. 



By Presentation : 

 Apatite and fluor from the ruby mines at Mogok, Upper 

 Burma : by Frank Atlay, Esq. 



Magnetite from Vembanad, Travancore, India : by Miss 

 Annie Baker. 



Melanterite from Bournemouth : by W. H. Barnes, Esq. 



New occurrences of Portuguese minerals, viz., Gold from 

 Fisga, pyrrhotite from Montemor, and cupro-uranite from 

 Sabugal : by Antonio Maria d' Oliveira Bello, Esq. 



Cassiterite (" wood-tin ") from Bolivia : by B. H. Bray, Esq. 

 Scheelite f rom Jardine, Montana : by Wilton 0. Brown, Esq. 

 Tourmaline, a faceted stone of a rich crimson colour : by 

 Sir Arthur H. Church, K.C.V.O., F.R.S. 



Limonite, pseudomorphous after iron-pyrites, from Sabinas, 

 Coahuila, Mexico : by W. Brodrick Cloete, Esq. 



Tourmaline from Wheal Kitty, St. Agnes, Cornwall : by 

 .7. H. Collins, Esq. 



A set, of minerals to illustrate the occurrence of china-clay 

 in the St. Austell district, Cornwall ; also a set of trade samples 

 of the prepared china-clay : by J. M. Coon, Esq. 



Moonstone from Ceylon : by M. Danapa^la, Esq. 



Wood-opal and turgite from New Guinea : by C. A. Darling, 

 Esq. 



Quartz crystals and bitumen lining a cavity in chalk, from 

 Burham, Kent : by G. E. Dibley, Esq. 



Fragments from three samples of vanadium ore (patronite, 

 etc.; from Cerro de Pasco, Peru : by the Director, Comntercial 

 Intelligence Branch, Board of Trade. 



Zeolites (apophyllite and natrolite), from the South African 

 diamond mines : by the Directors, De Beers Consolidated 

 Mines, Ltd. 



