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Exchanges. 

 Exchanges of specimens have been made with the 

 Department of Mines, Sydney; the Field Columbian Museum, 

 Chicago; the Royal Bavarian Museum, Munich (through 

 Professor Weinschenk) ; the Museum f iir Naturkunde, 

 Berlin (through Professor C. Klein) ; Dr. A. Brezina of 

 Vienna ; Mr. H. F. Collins of London ; Dr. Henry A. Ward 

 of Chicago. 



Acquisitions 

 622 specimens have been acquired during the year 1903, 

 namely : — 324 minerals, 278 rocks, and 20 meteorites. These 

 have been registered, numbered, labelled, and incorporated 

 with the collection. 



The more important of them are as follows : — 



Minerals. 

 By Presentation : 



An extremely fine group of large rhombohedra of rhodo- 

 chrosite from Colorado : by Mr. C. S. Bement. 



A remarkable crystal of wollastonite, in great part 

 changed into opal, from Santa Fe, Chiapas, Mexico : by 

 Mr. H. F. Collins. 



A magnificent crystal of kunzite, the lilac-coloured variety 

 of spodumene, from California: by Major A. H. Davis. 



About 18 mineral specimens from the Tyrol, including 

 anorthite, clinochlore, clinozoisite, tourmaline, zircon, and 

 zoisite; by Mr. F. N. A. Fleischmann. 



Specimens of borosilicate of calcium (including a new 

 species bakerite) from California : by Mr. W. B. Giles. 



A fine crystal of pale yellowish-green apatite from 

 Bolivia : by Miss Louie Hicks. 



A series of Canadian minerals, including specimens of 

 datolite, edenite, and graphite : by Dr. G. Chr. Hoff'mann. 



Crystals of thorianite from Ceylon : by Mr. W. R. Holland* 



Fine specimens of cerussite from Broken Hill, New South 

 Wales : by Mr. A. L. Lane. 



A remarkable lamellar variety of cuprite from Arizona : 

 by Mr. Richard Pearce. 



A collection of tin-ores from Bolivia : by Mr. M. Roberts. 



By Exchange : 

 A collection of minerals from the mine of Santa Fe, 

 Chiapas, Mexico, including bornite, enargite, siegenite, and 

 wollastonite. 



By Purchase : 

 An enormous crystal of gadolinite weighing 21^ kilograms, 

 from Sweden. 



