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Specimens of tantalite from Australia : by J. P. de Castro, 

 Esq., and by W. F. Grace, Esq. 



Tin-ores from the Transvaal : by G. A. Troye, Esq., and by 

 D. Draper, Esq. 



Specimens of corundum, spinel, sodalite, &;c., from India, 

 and of rubies, from N. Carolina : by Prof. J. W. Judd, c.B., 



F.R.S. 



Rubies, spinel and lapis lazuli, from Burma, the material 

 described by C. Barrin^ton Brown, Esq., and Prof. J. W. 

 Judd : by H.M. Secretary of State for India, through Prof. 

 J. W. Judd, C.B., F.R.S. 



Opals, from Queensland : by T. C. Wollaston, Esq. 



Faceted zircons : by E. Hopkins, Esq. 



Monazite, fine crystals with anatase on quartz: by the 

 Rev. J. M. Gordon. 



By Purchase : 



Fine crystals of whewellite, from Saxony. 



An exceptionally large crystal of seligmannite and a 

 fine specimen of the new mineral bowmanite, from the 

 Binnenthal. 



Amethyst with basal plane and distorted quartz crystals, 

 from the collection of the late Prof. Damour. 



Crystals of hellandite, mica and molybdenite, from 

 Norway. 



Of fine specimens from the United States may be men- 

 tioned: — Amethyst crystals in parallel growth on smoky quartz 

 from Montana, diaspore and datolite from Massachusetts, 

 calcite crystals impregnated with sand from S. Dakota, zincite 

 crystals from New Jersey, and a large crystal of riebeckite 

 from Colorado. 



Specimens of copper-glance and copper-pyrites ; also 

 crystals of bertrandite, a mineral new to Great Britain : 

 from Cornwall. 



Crystals of danburite on axinite, and of wolframite, 

 pseudomorphous after scheelite, from Japan. 



The following names added to the Museum List were 

 previously not represented by specimens in the Collection . — 



Astrolite, bowmanite, hutchinsonite, keweenawite, lengen- 

 bachite, marrite, mohawk-whitneyite, paratacamite, smithite, 

 stilpnochlorane, trechmannite. 



Rocks. 

 By Presentation : 

 A collection of rock-specimens and ores from the copper 

 mines of Bogoslovsk, Russia : by E. Stratonovitch, Esq., 

 through W. H. Shockley, Esq. 



A small collection of alkaline rocks from Victoria, 

 Australia : by G. B. Pritchard, Esq. 



