.136 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Auriferous specimens ; Mount Morgan, Queensland. 

 Fluorescent Amber, a beautiful example ; Sicily. 

 Sulphur, in large crystals ; Girgenti, Sicily. 

 Chalybite ; Tincroft Mine ; Redruth, Cornwall. 

 Artificial Rubies. 



Mispickel ; St. Ives Consols, Cornwall. 

 Grossular, in pink crystals ; Xalostoc, Morelos, Mexico. 

 Yttrialite, Tengerite, Thorogummite, and Nivenite ; Llano 

 County, Texas, U.S.A. 



By Exchange : 



A collection of crystallised Slags (IS specimens). 

 - American Minerals (19 specimens). 



Silver Ores from New South Wales (seven specimens). 

 Strontianite ; Westphalia. 

 Celestine, Bournonite and Linnaeite. 

 Mixite ; Utah. 



Of the above, Aguilarite, Auerlite, Boleite, Fiedlerite, Gano- 

 phyllite, Hintzeite, Kentrolite, Lavenite, Manganochlorite, 

 Nivenite, Ochrolite, Pinakiolite, Pyrophanite, Sellaite, Sul- 

 phohalite, Tengerite, Thorogummite, Weibyite, Yttrialite, are 

 newly-discovered species. 



The following species or varieties, hitherto unrepresented 

 in the collection, were also acquired during the year : — 



Aarite, Antillite, Aquacreptite, Baltimorite, Barcenite, Bis- 

 mutoferrite, Borickite, Bragite, Canaanite, Catlinite, Chalco- 

 menite, Chelmsf ordite, Chlorotile, Coeruleolactite, Coloradoite, 

 CubanitJ, Cyprusite, Dudleyite, Eucryptite, Fluosiderite, Ga- 

 lapectite^ Grochauite, Grothite, Guanoxalite, Guayacanite, 

 Hampshirite, Harringtonite, Hatchettolite, Hypoxanthite, 

 Ivigtite, Lagonite, Leelite, Leucanterite, Livingstonite, Mari- 

 posite, Melanosiderite, Meymacite, Microsommite, Necronite, 

 Neochrysolite, Palagonite, Partzite, Pencatite, Phonophyllite, 

 Phosphochromite, Polychroilite, Prasochrome, Prilepite, Pseu- 

 docotunnite, Pyroidesine, Redondite, Sauconite, Sinopite, 

 Spartaite, Steatargillite, Striegovite, Teschemacherite, Titano- 

 morphite, Vamaite, Waddoite, Waltherite, Wocheimite, 

 Xanthite, Zepharovichite. 



Rocks. 

 By Presentation : 



Rocks and Minerals (150 specimens) from various localities, 

 collected during the Franklin Search Expedition (18.52-53) and 

 the Antarctic Expedition (1839-43); bequeathed by Deputy 

 Inspector-General R. M'Cormick, r.n., f.r.c.s. 



Rocks (84 specimens) from Somali-land and Socotra, South 

 Africa ; by Professor T. Rupert Jones, f.r.s. 



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