166 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Exchanges. 



An exchange of specimens has been made with the 

 Calne Secondary School, Wilts, through Mr. C. Williams. 



Accessions. 

 1,420 specimens have been acquired, namely : — 

 1,014 minerals, 399 rocks, and 7 meteorites. All of them 



have been registered, numbered, and incorporated with the 



Collection. 



The more important of them are as follows : — 



Minerals. 

 By Presentation : 



Minerals from the new lead and zinc mines of Broken 

 Hill, .North-Western Rhodesia, including fine crystallised 

 specimens of hopeite and of the new minerals parahopeite 

 and tarbuttite, with descloizite, cerussite and pyromorphite : 

 by P. C. Tarbutt, Esq. 



Faceted and uncut specimens of " reconstructed " ruby 

 and spinel : by E. Hopkins, Esq. 



Diamond, sapphire, topaz, garnet and chrysoberyl ; from 

 Rhodesia : by G. FitzGibbon, Esq. 



A collection of Chilian minerals : by Senor A. E. Guerra. 



Hamlinite, gorceixite and harttite ; from Brazil : by Dr. 

 E. Hussak. 



Celestite and aragonite from Girgenti, Sicily : by F, N. 

 A. Fleischmann, Esq. 



Sapphires from Montana : by The New Mine Sapphire 

 Syndicate through G. A. Wells, Esq. 



Clinoclasite, tyrolite, pharmacosiderite, and conichalcite 

 from Utah, pitchblende from Colorado, and cassiterite from 

 Bolivia : by Dr. R. Pearce. 



Cinnabar, large twinned crystals : by H. A. Cousins, Esq. 



Harmotome from co. Wicklow, linarite from Cornwall, and 

 other examples of British minerals : by Arthur Russell, Esq. 



Hausmannite, blende, chalybite, fluor, &c., from the North 

 of England : by L. J. Spencer, Esq. 



Witherite with barytes, from the North of England : by 

 C. Pugh, Esq., and Siddell Watson, Esq. 



Fine twinned crystals of fluor from Weardale, Durham: 

 by J. Thompson, Esq. and T. Maddison, Esq. 



Scorodite from Carrock Fell, Cumberland : by W. 

 Hemingway, Esq. 



