ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 33 



i^.mong the more important of tlie additions made to the Collection during the past 

 year arc the following : — 



By Presen tation : — 



Ten crystals of Sapphire, one being of large size ; and waterworn crystals of Ziicon of 

 various colours from Siam ; Henry Alabaster, Esq., H. M. Consulate, ISiam. 



E-utile in mica-schist, Glen Thomas, Cushcamcurragh, near Borrishoole, Newport, 

 County Mayo, Ireland; Spencer G. Perceval, Esq., F.G.S. 



Kyanite traversing quartz, from the summit of Mount Itacolumi, Miuas Geraes, 

 Brazil ; Swinfen Jordan, Esq. 



Whewellite, crystallised on calcite (a portion of the original specimen described in 

 18-40 by the late Mr. H. T. Brooke); ^Y. G. Lettsom, Esq. 



Specimens of Stibnite and Cervantlte from the Costerfield mine, Heathcote, Victoria; 

 James Thomson, Esq. 



Albite with quartz. Wheal Metal, near Helston, Cornwall, Captain G. M. Hentz. 



Heteromorphite with Galena in quartz. Old Foxdale mine. Isle of Man (found in 18G8) -, 

 Warington W. Smyth, Esq., r. K. s., &c., &c. 



Mass of Ozocerite, Shores of the Caspian Sea; F. Field, Esq., F.c. s. 



Hortonolite, Monroe, Orange County, New York, U. S. A. ; Wm. Nevill, Esq., F.G.S. 



Native Gold, Punta Arenas, Strait of Magellan; Charles L. Claude, Esq. 



By Exchange : — 



Four specimens of Blende from the dolomite of the Binnenthal, Switzerland ; Mispickel 

 in very large crystals, Freiberg, Saxony ; blue Fluor, near Tavistock, Devonshire ; two 

 large specimens of Chalyblte, VizIUe, Dauphiue, France ; black Tourmaline, Canada ; 

 and Anglesite In large crystals on LImonite, Spain. 



By Pitr chase : — 



Native Gold with Tetradymite In quartz rock, Clogau mine, near Dolgelly, North Wales ; 

 a nugget of native Gold, weighing 1 oz. 188 grs. avoirdupoise, from the washings at 

 Helmsdale, Sutherlandshire ; Native Gold with LImonite pseudomorphous after iron 

 Pyrites, on sillcified shells and encrlnital stems, Csesatic MIk, Transylvania ; native Gold 

 in ferruginous Quartz, Carabal, Orinoco, South America. 



Native Sulphur in very perfect ciystals, GIrgentI, Sicily; Alloclasite, Orawlcza, Banat, 

 Hungary ; Jordanlte aiul Dufrenoysite from the valley of Binnen, Switzerland ; Argento- 

 pyrlte, Joachlmsthal, Bohemia ; specimens of Sal Ammoniac in unusually distinct and 

 large crystals from the eruption of Vesuvius in November 1868. 



A very large perfect crystal of Iluby. 



Martlte In large octahedrons, Cerro Mercado, near Durango, Mexico ; Namaqualite, Na- 

 maqualand, South Africa; Ilagemannlte, Cryolite in crystals, Gearksutite and Thomsenolite 

 all from Evigtok, Arksut-Fiord, West Greenland ; Turnerite,Maderanerthal, Swltzei'land ; 

 Anatase on rock crystal, Brazil ; two large crystals of Smoky Quartz, Monte Fibia, St. 

 Gotthard, Switzerland; Tridymlte from the Drachenfels, Khlne ; a large rolled pebble 

 of Cairngorm and a Avaterworu mass of Rock Crystal from Ben Mac Dhui, Aberdeen- 

 shire. 



A large specimen of Cerussite in crystals distributed over a fissure surface in New Red 

 Sandstone, Commern, Elfel ; Cerussite in delicate crystals from the Braithw aite mine, 

 near Keswick, Cumberland ; Bhodochrolsite, Oberneissen, near Dietz, Nassau ; Sclbite, 

 TVolfach, Baden ; Phosgeulte with galena, Los Palos, Spain. 



Very fine crystals of Chondrodlte in a matrix consisting of Galena, Blende, and Cojiper 

 pyrites, Nya Kopparberg, Orebro, Sweden; Malacolite in crystals in a similar matrix, 

 same locality ; Wallerite, same place ; a large crystal of Orangite, Brevig, Norway ; 

 Asteroite, Nordmarken, "Wermland, Sweden ; Bucklandite of Levy, Laacher See ; 

 Snarumite, Snarum, Norway ; Castorite, St. Pietro, Elba ; Zygadite, Andreasberg, 

 Hartz ; Mariallte of von Rath, Pianura, Naples; Scolecite in very long acicular crystals 

 with Apophyllite, Vendyah Mountains, India ; very fine Edingtonite, Old Kilpatrick, 

 Dumbartonshire ; Harmotome in brown crystals on pyrrhotlte ; Schneiderite, Monte 

 Catini, Tuscany; Epistilbite, Finkenhiibel, near Glatz, Silesia; Emerald with fluor spar 

 and talc, Eidsvold, north of Christiania, Norway; Pennlnite, Zermatt, Switzerland; 

 Mordenite, Morden, Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia. 



Two magnificent crystals of yellow Beryl, Mursink, Urals. 



Hjelmite, Kararfvet, near Fahlun, Sweden ; Columbite, Bodenmals, Bavaria. 



Vanadinite in good crystals, Obierberg, near Windisch-Kappel, Carlnthla. 



Boronatrocalcites and Silicoborocalcites from various places in Hants county, in Nova 

 Scotia ; and Sussexite with Zincite, Troostite, and Frankllnite in limestone, Sussex county, 

 New Jersey, U. S. A. 



The folloAving additions to the Cornish Minerals in the Collection have been made 

 chiefly by purchases from Mr. Tailing : — 



Very fine Calcltes, from near LIskeard ; Uranites, near Redruth ; Scnarmontlte in 

 cavities in Jamesonite, near Endellion ; Cronstedtites and fine Vivianltes ; Galena 

 pseudomorphous after Bournonite, near Liskeard ; Tavistockite and Fluellites, Stenna 

 Gwynn ; and Fluors, Menheniot mines. 



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