DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 167' 



By Bequest : 



A selection of 439 specimens of various minerals from the 

 large collection formed by the late Miss Caroline Birley. 

 These include an extremely fine series of zeolites from the 

 Faroe Islands, Iceland, and co. Antrim ; fine crystals of fluor 

 and witherite from the North of England ; large, clear 

 crystals of rhodochrosite from Colorado ; a large crystal of 

 emerald in the matrix from Russia ; and a fine star ruby, 

 mounted in a ring. 



By Purchase : 



A group of exceptionally large crystals of ilmenite from 

 Norway. 



Palladic gold, beryl, tourmaline cat's-eye, laceted aqua- 

 marine, and a large botryoidal mass of fibrous baddeleyite, 

 from Brazil. 



Polybasite from Mexico. 



Pale-blue crystals of apatite from Switzerland. 



Of fine specimens of American minerals may be men- 

 tioned : doubly-terminated crystals of tourmaline, benitoite, 

 pink beryl enclosing rubellite, corroded beryl, cinnabar, large 

 crystals of stibiotantalite, beautiful violet crystals of kunzite, 

 and crystals of topaz from California ; twinned crystals of 

 herderite from Maine ; lustrous red crystals of realgar from 

 Utah ; well-developed crystals of calomel from Texas ; 

 rhodochrosite, wolfram, columbite, and brilliant crystals of 

 iron pyrites, from Colorado. 



A peculiar crystal of boracite, composed of two inter- 

 penetrating parts, from Hanover. 



Tennantite, containing zinc, from the Binnenthal, Switzer- 

 land. 



Large crystals of cerussite of peculiar habit, in galena, 

 and a specimen of sammetblende, from Bohemia. 



Fine crystals of lorandite from Macedonia. 



A large silver nugget, weighing 622 grams. 



A group of colourless, tabular crystals of apatite from 

 Spain. 



Native copper and embolite, from Broken Hill, New South 

 Wales. 



A large mass of tantalite with stibiotantalite from Western 

 Australia. 



A group of large crystals of andorite from Bolivia. 

 An interpenetrating twinned crystal of diamond, and an 

 octahedron of diamond on boart. 



A polished slab of smaragdite from Burma. 



