228 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



A number of cut sheets of mica (muscovite) from Chutia 

 Nagpur, India, illustrating trade varieties : hy Harry N. 

 Sherman, Esq. 



Four polished slices of chalcedony : hy Miss Caroline 

 Shuckhurgh. 



Epistilbite and other zeolites collected by the donor in 

 Iceland : by F. H. Sikes, Esq. 



A series of specimens collected by the donor near Oke- 

 hampton, Devon, including: — Chalcedony from Gooseford 

 mine; chabazite from Ramsley mine; garnet and axinite from 

 Belstone mine ; garnet and actinolite from Redaven Brook ; 

 axinite, garnet, and heulandite from Wheal Forest ; datolite, 

 apophyllite, chabazite, and wollastonite from quarries at 

 Meldon : hy W. Camjjhell Smith, Esq. 



Crystals of hatchite, the original material described by the 

 the donor : by R. H. Solly, Esq. 



Witherite and aragonite from Arkengarthdale, Reeth, 

 Yorkshire ; witherite from Nenthead, Cumberland, collected 

 by the donor : by L. J. Spencer, Esq. 



A series of jadeite specimens, also wolframite and smoky 

 quartz, from Burma : hy Rodway C. /. Swinhoe, Esq. 



Rutile pseudomorphous after anatase from the Sopa 

 diamond mine, Rio das Petras, Minas Gereas, Brazil : by Percy 

 C. Tarbutt, Esq. 



Chalcedony from Droogveldt, South Africa ; by L. D. C. 

 Thomas, Esq. 



Fine crystal of scheelite from the Ulu Piah Company's tin 

 mine, Kinta, Federated Malay States : by the Ulu Piah 

 Gomi:>any. 



By Exchange : 

 Pectolite, calcite, and pyrites on basalt, and garnet in meta- 

 morphosed limestone, from Middleton, Teesdale, Co. Durham. 



Chessylite from Richmond, Yorkshire. 



By Purchase : 



Beryl, a fine, flawless, faceted stone of a rich pink colour, 

 weighing 119 • 74 grams, from Madagascar. 



Gold, two large cry ^tallized plates from Nevada Co. , California. 

 Five pieces of riband gold from Colombia, South America. 



Crocoite, three large groups of fine crystals from Tasmania. 



Beryl, two isolated crystals of the vorobyevite variety from 

 Savateyevo, Siberia. Idocrase, in large well-defined crystals, 

 and achtaragdite, in simple and interpenetrating triakisocta- 

 hedra, from River Vilyui, Siberia. 



Dioptase, a large group of brilliant crystals, and plancheite, 

 from Guchab, Otavi, German South- West Africa. Mimetite, 

 in large crystals, wulfenite, tsumebite, brochantite, cerussite, 

 etc., from Tsameb, in the Otavi district. 



