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DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 193 



Senckenberg. Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Frankfurt - am - 

 Main (through Dr. W. Schauf ) ; and Signer Francesco Mauro, 

 of Milan. 



The specimens acquired by presentation (arranged alpha- 

 betically according to donors), and by exchange, and the more 

 important of those obtained by purchase are as follows : — 



Minerals. 

 By Presentation : 

 Native copper and coal from Russian Turkestan : by Dr. A. 

 Adiassevich. 



Artificial avanturine glass : by Commendatore Arbib. 



Idocrase and axinite in metamorphic rocks from Cornwall : 

 by George Barrow, Esq. 



Zircon, orthoclase, and a pseudomorph of quartz after 

 calcite ; occurrences of Portuguese minerals newly discovered 

 by the donor : by Antonio Maria d'Oliveira Bello, Esq. 



Cassiterite, isolated crystal, from Swaziland, South Africa : 

 by R. H. Bray, Esq. 



Cassiterite from Northern Nigeria : by S. G. Brounger, Esq. 



Caracolite from Chili : by Lazard Cahn, Esq. 



Molybdenite from Jersey : by Walter Child, Esq. 



Chlorargyrite and huantajayite from Chili : by F. G. 

 Clarke, Esq. 



Malachite from Rhodesia - by W. H. Clarke, Esq. 



Anthracite and tremolite in metamorphosed dolomite, from 

 Transvaal : by Dr. G. S. Corstorphine. 



Ironstone nodule from Northern Nigeria : by H. S W. 

 Edwardes, Esq. 



Calcite with dolomite, on coal, from South Shields, Co. 

 Durham : by the Rev. Mark Fletcher. 



Tourmaline, a fine large crystal, from Pala, California ; 

 fluor-spar, a large, pink, transparent octahedron, from the 

 granite at Striegau, Silesia ; apophyllite, a fine specimen 

 showing pink crystals of tabular habit, from Andreasberg, 

 Harz ; apophyllite and faroelite lining a long tubular cavity in 

 basalt from Belfast ; hyalite in rhyolite trom Co. Antrim : by 

 F. N. A. Fleischmann, Esq. 



Iron -pyrites and barytes from Westphalia: by Paul 

 Grundhofl", Esq. 



Asphaltum from Alberta, Canada : by A. von Hammerstein, 

 Esq. 



M.onazite from Northern Nigeria : by R. T. Hancock, Esq. 



Chromite from Queensland : by P. Harris, Esq. 



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