154 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Acquisitions. 



725 specimens have been acquired during the year 1901, 

 namely : — 311 minerals, 405 rocks, and 9 meteorites. These 

 have been registered, numbered, labelled, and incorporated 

 with the collection. 



The more important of them are as follows : — 



Minerals. 

 By Presentation : 

 Carnotite ; Colorado : by E. Swain, Esq. 

 Chalcotrichite and Cuprite ; Arizona : by Dr. J. Douglas. 

 Clinozoisite ; Pragratten, Tyrol : by F. N. A. Fleischmann,. 

 Esq. 



Gold Tellurides from Western Australia : by the Directors 

 of the Great Boulder Proprietary Mines, Kalgoorlie. 



Graphite, large columnar specimens from Ceylon : by 

 A. K. Coomara-Swamy, Esq. 



Jade ; Yukon District, Canada : by E. F. Waldy, Esq. 



Ontariolite, Baddeckite and other minerals from Canada r 

 by Dr. G. Christian Hoffmann. 



Parisite ; Muso, Colombia : by W. Delisle Powles, Esq. 

 Willyamite ; Broken Hill mines, New South Wales : by 

 the Directors of the New Australian Broken Hill Consols. 



By Exchange : 



jEnigmatite in large crystals, Epididymite, Leucosphenite, 

 Spodiophyllite, Tainiolite, Yttrium-apatite, Ancylite, Cordy- 

 lite, Britholite, Epistolite, Schizolite ; Julianehaab, Green- 

 land. 



Lassallite and Termierite ; Hte. Loire, France. 



By Purchase : 



Apophyllite, a fine group of crystals with Scolecite ; 

 Syhadree Mountains, Bombay. 



Kathite, Pericline in fine crystals ; Binnenthal, Sv/itzer- 

 land. 



Kyanite in extremely long crystals, with Staurolite ; 

 Switzerland. 



Beryl, an extremely large crystal with a peculiar indented 

 terminal development ; Ekaterinburg, Kussia. 



Rubellite, an extraordinarily fine crystal ; Ekaterinburg, 

 Eussia. 



Allophane ; Rosas, Sardinia. 



Hainite ; Bohemia. 



Brookite, a fine crystal on matrix ; Bristenstock, Switzer- 

 land. 



Bentonite ; Wyoming. 



