ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 4t 



Acquisitions. 



All the specimens acquired during the past year, involving 324 entries in the general 

 catalogue, have been registered, labelled, and incorporated with the general collection. 

 It may be observed that a case-top has been reserved in the new gallery for the purpose 

 of exhibiting in a collective form the more important of the latest acquisitions before they 

 are dispersed among the numerous specimens acquired in bygone years. 



The more important acquisitions made during the year 1880 are the following : — • 



Minerals. 

 Ji?/ Presentation : — 



A facetted opal-amethyst ; wavellite, from Montgomery Co., Arkansas ; columbite, from 

 Standish, Maine ; and a facetted zircon : by Professor Nevil S. Maskelyne, M.P., f.e.s. 



A large group of lenticular crystals of selenite, enclosing sand, from the neighbourhood 

 of the Second Pyramid, Egypt : by Professor Richard Owen, c.B., f.e.s. 



Crystals of perofskite ; Magnet Cove, Arkansas : by Archibald McMartin, Esq. 



Specimens of basalt, associated with the nickeliferous iron of Ovifak : by Captain 

 H. W. Feilden, r.a., f.g.s. 



Calaverite; Mellones Mine, Calaveras Co., California, U.S.A.: by J. A.Phillips, 

 Esq., F.G.S, 



Various minerals from JN'ew Mexico : by F. M. Amy, Esq. 



A blueish-green facetted diopside ; Zillerthal : by Thomas J. Gibb, Esq. 



jBy Exchange : — 



CErstedtite, cymatolite, aglaite, and zoisite, from various places in Massachusetts, U.S.A. 

 Gummite and uranotile ; Mitchell Co., N. Carolina, U.S.A. 



Bj/ Purchase : — 



Pyrosmalite, manganophyllite, augite, apophyllite, fluor, berzeliite, ganomalite, and 

 baryilite, from Nordmark, Wermland, Sweden. 



A large crystal of black tourmaline, and one of beryl ; Bahia, Brazil. 



An exceedingly fine crystal of apatite of a violet colour; Schwarzenstein, Zillerthal, 

 Tyrol. 



A yellow facetted beryl. 



Native silver in fibres ; Perranporth, Cornwall. 



Sharply-defined crystals of native copper ; Lake Superior. 



Native sulphur ; Girgenti, Sicily. 



Aragonlte, in twinned crystals ; Clanciana, Girgenti, Sicily. 



VIvianites ; Wheal Jane, Cornwall. 



Dufrenlte; Rockbridge Co., Virginia, U.S.A. 



Varisclte ; Montgomery Co., Arkansas, U.S.A. 



Staurolite crystals; Fannin Co., Georgia, U.S.A. 



Gothitc ; Pike's Peak, Colorado, U.S.A. 



Leadhilllte ; Dernbach, Nassau. 



A crystal of white garnet ; Jordansmiihle, Silesia. 



Crystallised petzltes ; Botes, Transylvania. 



Pricelte ; Curry Co., Oregon, U.S.A. 



Crystal of euxenlte ; Tromoe, Norway. 



Pyrolusite ; Macskamezo, Hungary. 



Large crystal of enstatite ; Bamle, Norway. 



Crystal of thorite ; Arendal, Norway. 



Wavellite ; Garland Co., Arkansas, U.S.A. 



Ellaslte ; Przibram, Bohemia. 



Precious opal ; Baracoo River, Queensland. 



Ettrlngite ; Laacher See, Rhenish-Prussia. 



Chalcoslderite, well-crystallised ; West Wheal Phoenix, near Liskeard. 



Crystals of sarcolite, hornblende, humboldtillte, olivine ; Monte Somma, Naples. 



Rocks. 

 jBy Presentation : — 



Dunite; Dun Mountain, New Zealand: by Dr. J. Hector, f.r.s. 



Specimens from the neighbourhood of Burntisland and Kinghorn, Fife: by 

 William Carruthers, Esq., F.li.s. 



Basalt, accompanying the iron of Ovifak : by Prof. A. E. Nordenskiold. 



By Purchase : — 

 Large polished specimen of the orbicular diorite of Corsica. 

 0.65. F 



