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Barytes, several finely-crystallized groups and one crystal 

 llf inches in length ; also calcite, marcasite, and pyrites ; from 

 the iron mines of west Cumberland. 



Barytes, a large isolated crystal from Puy-de-D6me, 

 France. 



Copper and silver (native) in sharp crystals and native copper 

 enclosed in a clear crystal of calcite from Lake Superior, 

 Michigan ; chiastolite crystals from Fresno Co. and Madera Co., 

 California ; baddeleyite from Montana ; stibiotantalite from 

 California ; crystallized plattnerite from Idaho ; delafossite 

 crystals from Bisbee, Arizona ; and various other minerals from 

 American localities. 



Cassiterite, large isolated crystals, from Portuguese East 

 Africa. 



Tourmaline (rubellite), clear crystals and cut slices from 

 Barra de Salinas, Minas Geraes, Brazil. 



Blende, groups of large twinned crystals (spinel-twins), from 

 Shiraita, Japan ; also crystallized haematite and galena from 

 Japanese localities. 



Corundum (sapphire), simple and twinned crystals from 

 Kashmir. 



A series of gem-stones from Queensland and New South 

 Wales, including " black " opal, diamond crystals, zircon, olivine, 

 sapphire, and garnet. 



Crystals of betafite, bastnasite, columbite, monazite, 

 ampangabeite, and cut slices of tourmaline crystals from 

 Madagascar. 



Euclase and fluor from Epprechtstein, Bavaria ; jade, orthite, 

 brunsvigite, rhodonite, wollastonite, etc., from the Radauthal, 

 Harz : rhodochrosite, a fine specimen, and cuprite from the 

 Wolf mine, Siegen, Westphalia ; strontianite, an aggregate of 

 distinct prismatic crystals from Hamm, Westphalia ; and various 

 minerals from other German localities. 



Rocks. 



By Presentation : 



Volcanic lapilli and palagonite-tufF from Monte Brazil, 

 Terceira, Azores : hy Col. F. A. Chaves. 



A series of rock specimens (esterellite, etc.) collected by the 

 donor in the Esterel Mountains, Cannes, France : hy Di\ Julien 

 Drugman. 



Spheroidal granite (4 large blocks) from Mullaghderg, Co. 

 Donegal, and microgranite from Oritor, Co. Tyrone : hy F. N. A. 

 Fleischmann, Esq. 



Six specimens from Mt. Kinabalu, British North Borneo : hy 

 Miss L. S. Gibhs. 



Eleven rocks from Karungu, Uganda, British Ea^^t Africa ; 

 by C. W. Hohley, Esq., G.M.Q. 



