226 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



includes : — Minerals from Flintshire, described by Pennant in 

 " The History of the Parishes of Whiteford and Holywell " 

 (1796); specimens from Cornwall given to Pennant by the 

 Rev. Wm. Borlase, author of " The Natural History of 

 Cornwall" (1758); specimens given by Emanuel Mendes da 

 Costa, author of "A Natural History of Fossils" (1755); 

 specimens given by Erich Ludvigsen Pontoppidan, Bishop of 

 Bergen, author of "The Natural History of Norway" (1755). 

 Several of the specimens in the collection are mentioned in 

 these books : hy the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Denbigh, C.V.O. 



An isolated twinned crystal of quartz : hy Dr. Julien 

 Drtigman. 



A number of exceptionally fine specimens, including : — 

 Crystallized gold from Neveda Co., California ; a large crystal 

 of phosgenite from Monteponi, Sardinia ; a fine crystal of 

 rubellite from Barra de Salinas, Brazil ; a large block of 

 granite with a crystal-lined cavity containing poUucite, tour- 

 maline, foresite, &c., from. Elba ; pseudomorphs of malachite 

 after chessylite from Tsumeb, German South- West Africa; a 

 large series of fine crystallized specimens of barytes, quartz, 

 and pyrites from the iron mines of west Cumberland ; alstonite 

 and witherite from Nenthead, Cumberland ; groups of twinned 

 crystals of quartz from the Aosta valley, Piedmont ; chalcedony 

 from Carmean, Co. Londonderry ; rock-salt from Duncrue, 

 Co. Antrim ; galena pseudomorphous after pyromorphite 

 (" blue lead-ore ") from Berncastel, Rhenish Prussia : hy F.N. A. 

 Fleischmann, Esq. 



Garnet (almandine) from Danbury, New Hampshire, 

 U.S.A. : hy George M. Flint, Esq. 



A large specimen of adularia, showing l^lanebach and 

 Baveno twinning ; three large specimens of calcite with quartz ; 

 brookite on quartz ; rutile on ilmenite ; and a large anatase 

 crystal ; all obtained by the donor in Switzerland : hy the Rev. 

 J. M. Gordon. 



Felspar • (oligoclase) crystals from Canisp, Sutherland: hy 

 Prof. J. W. Gregory, F.R.8. 



Gypsum enclosing sand, from the Caspian Sea: hy Francis 

 A. Holiday, Esq. 



A faceted yellow beryl, weighing 2*821 grams, from 

 Madagascar ; a set of eight cut turquoises from the Sinai 

 Peninsula; four faceted specimens of manufactured corundum, 

 two of them parti-coloured, and one faceted specimen of artificial 

 spinel : hy E. Hopkins, Esq. 



A specimen of crystallized basic copper phosphate from 

 BwanaM'Kubwa copper mines, Rhodesia : hy Dr. A. Hutchinson. 



Sulphur from Japan : hy Dr. K. Inouye. 



Hokutolite from Formosa : hy Prof. K. Jimho (through Dr. 

 A. K. Coomaraswamy). 



