160 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



A series of minerals from France and French Colonies 

 includino^ speciroens of villiaumite from Los Islands, bityite, 

 barkevikite, grandidierite, and tourmaline from Madagascar, 

 axinite, friedelite, and rhodochrosite from Hautes Pyrenees, 

 humite from Arignac, valentinite and hemimorphite from 

 Algeria, and plancheite from French Congo : from the Museum 

 d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, through Prof. A. Lacroix, 



By Purchase : 



A remarkable series of specimens from the United States 

 including : — tourmaline and topaz in large crystals, diamond, 

 uvarovite, gold in sharp crystals, benitoite with neptunite, from 

 California ; wolframite, greenockite, vivianite in fine crystals, 

 and gold on galena and blende, from Colorado ; montroydite 

 with eglestonite and terlinguaite, from Texas ; ruby in lime- 

 stone, from New Jersey : topaz with phenacite, from New 

 Hampshire ; apatite in mauve crystals, from Maine ; a large 

 crystal of arkansite, from Arkansas ; brilliant crystals of iron- 

 pyrites, from Utah ; a large specimen of aurichalcite, from New 

 Mexico ; and dioptase, from Arizona. 



Tetrahedrite, a group of fine crystals, from Botes, Tran- 

 sylvania. 



Wulfenite in large brown and orange-red crystals, stepha- 

 nite, and apophyllite in crystals rich in faces, from Mexico. 



Specimens from the collection of the late • Dr. W. T. 

 Blanford, including : — cerussite, chabazite, and natrolite from 

 Bohemia, tourmaline from Norway, and stilbite and heulandite 

 from the Harz. 



Arborescent crystals of silver coated with smaltite, from 

 Cobalt, Ontario. 



Crystals of cotunnite, tenorite, and sal-ammoniac, from the 

 eruption of Mt. Vesuvius of 1906. 



Kemarkable crystals of tourmaline, and etched crystals of 

 aquamarine from Brazil. 



Star-sapphires, from Tasmania. 



Epidote crystal showing idiophanic brushes, from Salzburg. 



Fluor in pink crystals coating large crystals of smoky 

 quartz, from Mont Blanc. 



A tAvin-crystal of corundum, from Ceylon. 



Fine twin-crystals of whewellite, from Saxony. 



A remarkably large crystal of pollucite, from Elba. 



A polished section of a large green-and-red banded crystal 

 of tourmaline, from Madagascar. 



Native iron in basalt, from Hesse. 



Fine specimens of "black opal" and hydrophane, from 

 Queensland. 



A magnificent group of large crystals of aragonite, from 

 Sicily. 



A fine, etched crystal of topaz, from Nertschinsk, Siberia, 



