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



blendic granite of Mount Sorrel, Leicestershire ; a series of small Agates from the 

 •' Bunter " pebble-bed near Lichfield, Staffordshire ; Celestine, Clifton, near Bristol; and 

 a globular felsite from a boulder near Old Cleeve Chuj-ch, West Somerset. 



From T. Davies, Esq., f.g.s., Rock Crystal enclosing acicular crystals of Rutile and 

 casts of vermicular crystals of Chlorite, from Minas Geraes, Brazil, 



From Thomas "W". Eady, Esq., a polished Cat's-Eye, Orange River, South Africa. 



From John Evans, Esq., r.R.s., specimens of Beauxite, Beaux, Bouches du Rhone, 

 France. 



From D. L. Mundy, Esq., specimens of Siliceous Sinter, from the Geysers and Hot 

 Springs of Rota Mohana, New Zealand. 



From M. Gustave Lehmann, through Robert Bunch, Esq., H. M. Minister at Bogota ; 

 two large detached crystals of Parisite, Muzo, Santa Fe de Bogota, New Granada. 



From S. Sharp, Esq., f.g.s., Allophane, and specimens of Ironstone replacing shells, 

 from the Oolite, near Northampton. 



From William Butt, Esq., Scolecite in long diverging crystals, sprinkled with limpid 

 crystals of Apophyllite, Syhadree Mountains, Bombay. 



From the Rev. Greville Chester, specimens of Lapis Lazuli, Turquoise, Emerald, and 

 Amazonstone found in Egypt. 



From J. M. Blake, Esq., Wulfenite in large thin transparent tables, Tecoma mine, 

 Lucin district, Utah, U. S. A. 



From H. Poole, Esq., f.g.s., Argentiferous Anglesite, Arizona district, Colorado 

 River, U. S. A. 



From G. W. Muir, Esq., Copal enclosing small beetles. West Africa. 



From Col. Richard L. Maury, a block of Splint Coal, Kanawha Valley, West Vir- 

 ginia, U. S. A. 



From William Vicary, Esq., F.G.s., 32 rock specimens from Devonshire. 



From J. W. Judd, Esq., F.G.s., 80 specimens of rocks, principally from the Islands 

 of Mull and Skye. 



From Thomas Davies, Esq., F.G.s., 52 rock specimens from the Isle of Skye, and 

 various other localities in Scotland. 



By purchase and exchange : — 



Specimens of Native Gold, from various localities in Queensland, Australia, by ex- 

 change from Richard Daintree, Esq., F.G.s. 



Native Gold in quartz. Butt Co., California, U. S. A., a section of a pebble with veins 

 of solid gold ; a series of crystals of Diamond lying in the decomposed rock in which they 

 are found at the diamond-fields of South Africa; and Native Sulphur, in remarkably 

 fine crystals, from Girgenti, Sicily. 



Fine Blende in dolomite from the BInnenthal, Rhonethal, Switzerland ; large cubo- 

 octahedron of Galena, Neudorf, Hartz ; fine Stromeyerite in large though indistinct 

 crystals, Sombrerete, Mexico ; specimens of Metacinnabarite in semi-opal, Lake Co., Cali- 

 fornia, U. S. A,; Bismuth Glance, Sorato, Bolivia; Bournonite, Horhausen, Nassau; 

 Enargite, Willis Gulch, Colorado, U. S. A. ; Pyrargyrite, Freiberg, Saxony ; and 

 specimens of Jordanite in remarkable crystals, with a series of the minerals peculiar to the 

 dolomite of the Binnenthal, Switzerland. 



Fine cubes of green fluor curiously eroded, from the Oehrli, Appenzell, Switzerland ; 

 an octohedron of rose-fluor from the Gbschenen-Alp, Switzerland ; fluor with blende on 

 chlorite, Trevannance mine, St. Agnes, Cornwall ; with copper pyrites from near Redruth,, 

 Cornwall ; and from Beeralston, Devonshire. 



A large deep yellow Sapphire, facetted ; a colourless Sapphire, also facetted ; a bright 

 little facetted specimen of Hyacinth from Ceylon ; a large crystal of Kibdelophane from 

 Krageroe, Norway ; specimens of Precious Opal, associated with ferruginous sands and 

 Jaspar, Baracoo River, Queensland, Australia; one of them a cut specimen remarkable 

 for its fire and the dark colour of the matrix ; Precious Opal with native gold, Czerwenicza, 

 Hungary ; and a very large cavernous mass of botryoidal pale Sard, from India. 



A large specimen of Alstonite, Bromley Hill, near Alston, Cumberland ; a very fine 

 Chessylite, Chessy, Dep. du Rhone, France ; and Pearl- spar pseudomorphous after a 

 scalenohedron of calcite, Schemnitz, Hungary. 



Apophyllites, Bergen Hill, New Jersey, U. S. A., and the Syhadree Mountains, 

 Bombay ; and fine specimens of Scolecite, Stilbite and Heulandite from the same 

 locality ; the same, together with Natrolite, Calcite, Prehnite and Datholite, from Bergen 

 Hill, New Jersey, U. S. A. ; amygdules of Natrolite, Aussig, Bohemia ; cut crystal of 

 Andalusite from Brazil ; a fine dark-yellow facetted Topaz : group of crystals of Lievrite, 

 Rio la Marina, Elba ; a crystal of Beryl, Bahia ; Annite from Rockport, Massachusetts, 

 U.S.A.; Serpentine pseudomorphous after crystals of Hornblende, Phillipstown, Put- 

 nam Co., New York, U. S. A. ; Steatite, after large crystals of Quartz, Gopfersgriin, 

 Wunsiedel, Bavaria ; and Carpholite, Wippra, Hartz. 



Specimens of Cuproscheelite, from Kern Co., California, U. S. A. ; and of Hvibnerite, 

 from the Mammoth district, Nevada, U. S. A. 



Large crystal of Barytes, Courtada, Auvergne ; and fine specimens of Suzannite and 

 Lanarkite, from Leadhills, Lanarkshire. 



Specimens of Ludwigite (a magnesioferric borate), from Morawicza, Banat, Hungary ; 

 and of Sussexite, from Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey, U. S. A. 



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