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Hornstone and crystals of perofskite. Magnet Cove, Hot Springs Co., Arkansas, 

 U.S.A. : by G. F. Kunz, Esq. 



Dolomite in bronze-coloured crystals from the iron mines of West Cumberland : by 

 Miss Sarah H. Bayles. 



Philadelphite : by Professor H. C. Lewis of Philadelphia, 



Venerite, Jones mine, Caernarvon, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. : by Professor N. Story 

 Maskelyne, m.p. 



Sapphire from Australia : by E. W. Streeter, Esq. 



Limonite concretions in sandstone, Tzitzikama, South Africa: by Mrs. Rigge. 



A fine specimen of uranocircite, Falkenstein, Saxon Yoigtland : by A. H. Church, 

 Esq., M.A. 



Bowlingite, near Old Kilpatrick : by D. Corse Glen, Esq. 



Fine galenas, V\' anlockhead ; and amazon-stone from Tongue, Sutherland: by 

 P. Dudgeon, Esq., c.E. 



Specimens of zincite and willemite from New Jersey, U.S.A.: by J. C. Piatt, Esb., c.E. 



Calcite, Dockra near Beith, Ayrshire : by J. C. Christie, Esq. 



By Exchange : — 



Crystals of sphene, and a large crystal of zircon, Renfrew, Canada ; a dark green 

 translucent garnet, and doubly terminated crystals of apatite, Templeton, Canada ; 

 wavellite. Garland Co., Arkansas, U.S.A. ; and uranotile, Mitchell Co., N. Carolina, 

 U.S.A. 



By Purchase : — 



A nugget of gold from the Carnon Stream Tin Works, Falmouth, Cornwall. 



A fine and large group of crystallised sulphur of hemihedral liabit, Girgenti, Sicily. 



A specimen of chilenite, San Antonio, Copiapo, Chili. 



Fine crystallized petzites, Botes, Transylvania ; acanthite, Mexico ; fredericite, 

 Fahlun, Sweden; sandbergerite, Mina de Santa Maria de las Nieves, Peru; rhabdo- 

 phanes (the rare phosphate of didymium, &c.), Cornwall. 



Very fine specimens of the rare species xanthocone, Mina Dolores, and pyrostilpnite, 

 Mina Delirio, Copiapo, Chili. 



Matlockites and phosgenites in very perfect and clear crystals, Derbyshire. 



A banded facetted sapphire, Ceylon. 



A very fine twinned zircon ; Templeton, Canada. 



A large twin of rutile; Graves Mount, N. Carolina, U.S.A. 



Anatase ; Binnenthal, Wallis, Switzerland. 



Orangite, Brevig ; and thorite, Arendal, Norway. 



Chalcedony nodule, containing a fluid ; Uruguay, S. America. 



A large group of aragonite crystals, Girgenti, Sicily. 



A suite of fine crystals of gadolinite, and of seschynite, Hitteroe, Norway ; idocrase 

 and augites, Templeton, Canada ; diopsides, pennine and augites, Nordmark iron- 

 mines, Wermland, Sweden ; a very large crystal of esmarkite, Brevig, Norway. 



Heulandites, with octohedral fluor, Gieblisbach, Wallis, Switzerland. 



An exceedingly fine group (probably unique) of rubellite crystals on albitic granite, 

 San Piero in Campi, Island of Elba; crystalHsed danburites, Dekalb, New York, U.S.A. 



Large crystals of perofskite, Zermatt, Switzerland. 



Anglesites, Siegen, Prussia; crystallised celestines, Egypt; a very fine group of 

 barytes crystals, Przibram ; other specimens from Cumberland. 



Libethenite in large crystals. West Wheal Phoenix, near Liskeard, Cornwall ; large 

 monazites, Arendal, Norway ; karyinite and mimetesite, Langban, Wermland, 

 Sweden ; triploidite, dickinsonite, eosphorite, and lithiophilite, from Branchville, 

 Redding, Connecticut, U.S.A.; melanotekite, Langban, Wermland, Sweden; pseudo- 

 brookite, Aranyer-berg, Hungary ; phosphochromite, Elroque, West India Islands ; 

 wilcoxite, Franklin, N. Carolina, U.S.A.; wilsonite, Templeton, Canada; antillite, 

 Cuba ; ontariolite, Galway, Ontario Co., Canada ; keatingite and vanuxemite. New 

 Jersey; hiddenites (one facetted), Alexander Co., N. Carolina, U.S.A. ; diabantire in 

 dolerite, Connecticut Valley, U.S.A. ; and gedanite, from Sassau, Samland, Prussif. 



Numerous artificial crystals. 



Rocks. 

 JBy Presentation : — 



An illustrative series of the rocks constituting the three new divisions of the Precam- 

 brian group : by Dr. Henry Hicks, F.G.S. 



By Purchase : — 



A collection of rocks of the Auvergne, France. 



A series from the Pennine Alps. 



A fine slab of the green " antique porphyry," or porphyritic felsite. 



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