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



Minerals. 



By Presentation : — 



Native Gold in Quartz, Nicaragua : by Cecil Carus Wilson, Esq. 



Calcite, Plurabiferous Aragonite, Anglesite and Hemimorphite, Wanlockhead ; 

 Cerussite and Leadhillite, Lcadhills ; Dolomite, Newton vStewart, Galloway ; Thorite 

 and green Microcline, Tongue, Sutherland; and slices of Smaragdite, China : by Patrick 

 Dudgeon, Esq. 



Chlorargyrite, Native Silver, Argentopyrite, Chrysocolla, Chalcanthite, Covellite, 

 Chileite, from Chili ; and Cinnabar, New Almaden, California : by F. A. Eck, Esq. 



Tourmaline, Madagascar: by the Rev. James "Wills. 



A. pair of studs worked from the Rosa Caruagione Marble of Kleber, Oran, Algeria: 

 by Lieut. Col. Playfair. 



Monite, Monetite, and Pyroclasite, Moneta, "West Indies : by Professor C. U. 

 Shepard. 



A mass of translucent Chlorargyrite, Florida Mine, near Tal-Tal, Atacama : by 

 George Hicks, Esq. 



A large crystal of Quax-tz, Switzerland : by Clarence Bement, Esq. 



A polished chalcedony. Isle of Wight : by the Rev. Thos. Wiltshire, M.A., F.G.S. 



Pectolite, Maddison's Quarry, Middleton-in-Teesdale, Durham : by Mark H. 

 Bullen, Esq. 



Magnesium platino-cyanide and two other artificial crystals : by Thos. Davies, 

 Esq., F.G.S. 



Crystals of Celestine, Peak-hill, Sidmouth, Devonshire : by P. O. Hutchinson, Esq. 



Arquerite, Vital Creek, British Columbia ; Roscoelite, El Dorado Co., California ; 

 by the California State Mining Bureau : through H. G. Hanks, Esq. 



Cluthalites and Prehnites : by the Committee of the British Association. 



By Excliange : — 



Graphite, crystallised, in crystalline limestone, Canada. 



Various specimens of Blende, Calcite and Galena, Wanlockhead, Dumfries-shire. 



Iron-glance, Transylvania. 



Large crystals of Microlite from the Mica mines of Amelia County, Virginia, U.S.A. 



By Purchase : — 



Native Gold, a skeleton crystal, Beresowsk, Urals; also from Gilpin Co., Colorado ; 

 pseudomorphous after Petzite, American mine, Colorado, U.S.A. 



Native Tellurium with Roscoelite, Colorado, U.S.A. 



Amalgam, Moschellandsbero;, Rhenish Bavaria. 



Petzites, American mine, Colorado, U.S.A. 



Tellurpyrite, Boulder Co., Colorado, U.S.A. 



Boart from South Africa. 



Bournonite, Horhausen, Rhine. 



Tetrahedrite, Miisen, near Siegen, Prussia. ' 



Diaphorite, Przibram, Bohemia. 



Frieseite, Joachimsthal, Bohemia. 



Valencianite, Valenciana mine, Mexico. 



Esmarkite, Brevig, NorAvay. 



Large polished slab of Rhodonite, Ekaterinburg, Pe^'ni, Russia. 



Babingtonite, Herbornseelbach, Nassau. 



Fine Topaz and Beryl crystals, Mursinsk, Urals ; and a specimen from St. Michael's 

 Mount, Cornwall. 



Zircons, Renfrew, Canada. 



Natrolite, Neubauerberg, Habichtstein, Bohemia. 



Polished slab of Perthite, Perth, Canada ; and one of Hypersthene, Labrador. 



A fine mass of Uralorthite, Miask, Urals. 



A dodecahedral crystal of Lapis Lazuli, Bucharia. 



A large crystal of Danburite, Russel Co., New York, U.S.A. 



A large crystal of PoUucite, Elba. 



A large amygdule of Okenite, Disco Island, Greenland. 



Samarskite in large crystals, Mitchel Co., N. Carolina, U.S.A. 



Crystals of Lederite (Sphene), Renfrew, Canada. 



A fine crystal of Bastnasite with Tysonite, from Pike's Peak, El Pasos Co., Colorado, 

 U.S.A. 



Scheelite, Riesengrund, Silesia. 



Wulfenite, Castle Dome, Arizona, U.S.A. 



Descloizite, Venus Mine, Dep. de Miuas, Sierra dc Cordoba, Argentine Republic. 



Vanadinites, Hamburg mine, Yuma Co., and Castle Dome, Arizona, U.S.A. 



Celestines, Dornburg, near Jena ; and Wady-el-Teh, Egypt. 



Barytes, Red Gill mines, Cumbei'land. 



Caledonite, 



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