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from Bancroft, Ontario ; spinel, sahlite, and other Canadian 

 minerals. 



Finely crystallized specimens of calcite and barytas from 

 Cumberland and of fluor from Weardale, Co. Durham. 



Beryl, a ,^roup of large rough crystals of a pale emerald- 

 green colour in mica-schist ; crystallized specimens of epidote, 

 magnetite, haematite, and other minerals from the Ural 

 Mountains. 



Rocks. 

 By Presentation : 

 The series of rock specimens collected by the late Sir John 

 Richardson on Sir John Franklin's second expedition in 1825- 

 27 to the shores of the Polar Sea, and described in an appendix 

 to Sir John Franklin's narrative : by the Lords Commissioners 

 of the Admiralty, through Surgeon-General John J.Dennis 

 F.R.S. 



Rock specimens and silicified wood from Reduccion, Para- 

 guay : by Chas. Stanley Barnes, Esq. 



Specimens of hornblende-schist with garnet, and diamondi- 

 ferous rocks, from South Africa, mainly the northern Trans- 

 vaal : by J. Berry, Esq. 



Volcanic bombs and recent lava collected by the donor at 

 depths down to 1,212 feet inside the crater of Vesuvius : by 

 Frederick Burlingham, Esq. 



Basalt from Castelo di Moio, Flores, Azores: by Col. F. A. 

 Chaves. 



Rocks from South Georgia collected by Mr. P. Stammwitz 

 on the late Major G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton's Expedition, 

 1913-4 : by the Colonial Office, London. 



Two polished slabs of verdite from Barberton district, 

 Transvaal, South Africa : by T. D. Cunningham, Esq. 



Specimens of spherulitic felsite filled with agate, and of 

 pitchstone from Colle de Grane, Esterel Mts., Var, France : by 

 Dr. J. Drugman. 



A series of thin sections and specimens of rocks described 

 by Prof. Judd and others, namely : rockallite from Rockall, 

 North Atlantic ; rocks from Scotland, the Ruby mines near 

 Mogok, Upper Burma, and Korea ; thin sections of chips from 

 Stonehenge, Wiltshire ; corundum rocks from India, etc. : by 

 the Governing Body of the Lm2)erial College of Science and 

 Technology, London, at the request of Prof. J. W. Judd, C.B., 

 F.R.S. (see ^.204<). 



Volcanic dust from south-west Alaska : by Rev. Canon J. 

 H. Keen. 



Granite with cordierite from Ivybridge, Devonshire, and 

 andalusite-hornfels from Nodden Quarry, near Bridestowe 

 station, Devonshire : by F. P. Mennell, Esq. 



