DEPARTMENT OF MINEllALOGY. 199 



Various Japanese minerals, including fine crystals of 

 blende. 



Samsonite (a new species), a group of crystals on the matrix 

 and an isolated crystal, from the Samson mine, Andreasberg, 

 Harz. 



Herderite, a large crystal, with cassiterite, etc., a rare 

 specimen from the original locality in Saxony. 



Proustite, a small group of crystals on calcite, from 

 Chanarcillo, Chili. 



Fluor, polished slabs of massive purple and green material, 

 from the Belgian Ardennes. 



Euclase, an isolated crystal rich in faces and a crystal in 

 the matrix, from Boa Vista, Brazil. 



Tourmaline, topaz and beryl, fine isolated crystals of gem- 

 quality, from Minas Geraes, Brazil. 



Bismuth, bismuthinite, wolframite, scheelite, molybdenite, 

 cassiterite, etc., from the mining districts of northern Queens- 

 land. 



Covellite, platy crystals {2^ inches across) with a brilliant 

 brassy tarnish, from Butte, Montana. 



Whewellite, beautifully developed twinned crystals, from 

 Schian, Bohemia, and from Burgk, Saxony. 



Hemimorphite, a magnificent group of sheaf-like crystals, 

 twinned groups of calcite crystals, and mimetite, from Santa 

 Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico. 



Twenty-six isolated crystals of diamond from the various 

 mines at Kimberley, South Africa ; total weight 9*442 grams. 



Almandine, a polished ball showing " light-circles." 



Lazurite (lapis-lazuli), portion of a large crystal, from 

 Badakshan, Afghanistan. 



The following mineral names added to the Museum 

 List were previously not represented by specimens in the 

 Collection : — 



Adipite, alamosite, artinite, brugnatellite,calafatite, cassinite, 

 ceruleite, cossyrite, doughtyite, fermorite, grahamite, ham- 

 bergite, hartleyite, hoeferite, hogtveitite, howdenite, ionite, 

 joaquinite, maldonite, risorite, samsonite, tantalum, tararaellite, 

 vashegyite, vorbyevite. 



Rocks. 



By Presentation : 



Stones dredged from the Atlantic by the repairing ship of 

 the Anglo-American Telegraph Co., Ltd. : by F. A. Bevan -Esq. 



A set of 49 chips of alkaline rocks from various localities 

 in New South Wales : by the Department of Mines, Sydney, 

 New South Wales 



