40 ACCOUNTS, &U., OF THB BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The new arrangements adopted by the department of Her Majesty's Secretary of State 

 for India in regard to the India Museum have resulted in the mineralogical collections of 

 that Museum becoming handed over to this department. The transfer took place in the 

 closing weeks of the year, so that a summary only can at present be given of the collec- 

 tions thus falling under the care of this department. 



The following are the most important of the acquisitions made by the Department : 



Acquisitions by Presentation : — 



£1/ Professors Roscoe and Sctiorlemmer : 

 Native Tin, from the gold washings of Playa Gritada, Rio de Tipuani, Bolivia, South 

 America. 



By H. E. Hope, Esq. :— 

 Crystals of Diamond from Bultfontein, South Africa. 



By the Bight Hon. Sir Wm. Gregory, C.M.G. : — 

 Specimens of Sapphire, Ceylon. 



By Professor A. Des Cloizeaux, of Paris : — 

 Senarmontite, Hamimad mine, Constantine, Algeria ; and Adamite, Laurium mines, 

 Greece. 



By Henry Louis, Esq., F.G.S. :— 

 Specimens of Ankerite and Sideroplesite from Londonderry, Nova Scotia. 



By Henry Ludlam, Esq., F.G.S. : — 

 Specimens of Herschelite from Richmond, near Melbourne, Victoria ; and Dunite 

 from Dun Mountain, Nelson, New Zealand. 



By Professor B. Silliman, Jun., of Newhaven, Connecticut, U.S.A.: — 

 Specimens of Hemimorphite, Little Cottonwood Mines, Utah ; Enargite, Tintic, 

 Utah ; Ulexite, Columbus, Esmeralda Co., Nevada ; Priceite, near Chetko, Curry Co., 

 Oregon ; and Jarosite, Vulture Gold Mine, Arizona Territory, U.S.A. 



By G. W. Ormerod, Esq., F.G.S. : — 

 Two specimens of Tourmaline in granite, *from Chegford, near Exeter. 



By Professor Roscoe, F.R.S.: — 

 Specimens of Mottramite encrusting a sandstone of Keuper age, from Mottram St. 

 Andrew's, Cheshire. 



By Admiral Sir George Naves, K.C.B. .• — 

 Fibroferrite from the Alcaparrosa Mine, Copiapo, Chili. 



By Henry Ludlam, Esq., F.G.S. : — 

 A Collection of 60n specimens of Rocks from various localities not represented in the 

 Collection, including rocks from the departments of the Vosges, Haute Loire, and the 

 Puy-de-D6me, in France. The collection is illustrated by sections prepared from many 

 of the rock-specimens for use with the microscope. 



Acquisitions by Purchase : — 



Native Silver, Wheal Darlington, Marazion, Cornwall ; Kongsberg, Norway ; and 

 associated with magnetite, Nordmark mines, Wermland, Sweden. 



Native Gold, Beresowsk, Perm, Russia. 



Native Platinum associated with chromite, Nijni-Tagilsk, Perm, Russia. 



A mass of native Bismuth, in very large crystals, with native Gold, Bolivia, South 

 America. 



Arquerite, Arqueros, Chili. 



Alabandite, Nagyag, Transylvania. 



Millerite, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. 



Bjelkite and Galenobismutite, Nordmark iron mines, Wermland, Swedon. 



Bournonite, Przibram, Bohemia ; and Herodsfoot mine, near Liskeard, Cornwall. 



Cacheutaite, Cacheuta, Mendoza, La Plata, S. America. 



Polydymite, Siegen, Prussia. 



Stephanite, Transylvania. 



Rivotite, Sierra del Cadi, Lerida, Spain. 



Pyrargyrite as a vein in limestone. Chili. 



Freieslebenite, Santa Maria, Potosi, Peru. 



Fluor, Miinsterthal, Baden. 



Magnetite in bright rhombic dodecahedrons, Nordmark iron mines, Wermland, Sweden. 



Cleveite, Arendal, Norway. 



Spinel, Schischimskaja Mountains, Urals, Russia. 



Anatase, Binnenthal, Switzerland. 



Senarmontite, Hamimad mine, <Jonstautine, Algeria. 



Chalcedony geodes enclosing water, Rio Grande, Uruguay, South America. 



Marmairolite, Langban mines, Wermland, Sweden. 



Chessylite in crystals with malachite. South Caradon mines, near Liskeard, Cornwall. 



Enstatite 



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