ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. ()5 



A specimen of silver ore ; Chanarcillo, Copiapo, Chili : by His Excellency Don Marcial 

 Martinez. 



Prehnite, diaclasite, and bastite ; Harzburg, Harz, Germany : by Professor Ulrich. 



Native Alum, Mamboia, East Africa : by J. T. Last, Esq. 



A series of Zinc Ores, from the Province of Santander, Spain : by the Science and Art 

 Department. 



Calaite or Turquoise, Karkaralinsk District, Kirghese Steppes, Russia : by Walilula 

 Bekmelen, Esq. 



Several minerals, including sapphire, rubellite and microcline, Madagascar • by the 

 Rev. J. Wills. 



Melinite, Majdanpek, Servia : by James Taylor, Esq. 



An unusually large and fine simple crystal of staurolite, Dep. Finistere, France : by 

 C. Seidler, Ksq. 



Crystals of mellite, Malevka, Tula, Russia : by Dr. T. Schuchardt. 



Crystals of grossular garnet. Orange River Free State, South Africa : by Dr. Hucrh 

 Exton of Blomfontein. 



Zuisite, Loch Garve, Ross-shire : Jay Professor Heddle. 



Native Gold, Ontario Mine, Summit County; rezbanyite, Yankee Girl Mine; bro- 

 chantite, Monarch Mine, Chaffee County, Colorado ; hiibnerite, near Phillipsburg ; tetrady- 

 raite. Cable Mine, Montana; argentite. Lake Valley, New Mexico; conichalcite and 

 olivenite, American Eagle Mine, Tintic, Utah, U.S.A., and some small but sharply defined 

 crystals of an alloy of gold and silver: by Richard Pearce, Esq., of Denver, Colorado 

 U.S.A. 



Garnet crystals found in a sandy material 30 feet from the surface at Ganjam, Madras : 

 by A. Grenville Mallet, Esq., c.e. 



Meneghinite, Marble Lake, Ontario; tennantite, Capeltown, Quebec; a large crystal 

 of phlogopite, Templeton, Quebec ; and dawsonite, Montreal, Canada : by Dr. J. Harring- 

 ton of Montreal. 



Albite Avith mesitite and pyrrhotite, Morro Velho, Minas Geraes, Brazil: by F. 

 Tendron, Esq., r.G.s. 



Nodules of Haematite from the Permian breccias of Leicestershire: by W. S. Gresley, 

 Esq., F.G.s. 



Pyromorphite, Pontgibaud, Auvergne : by W. H. Richard, Esq. 



By Purchase : — 



Native Gold, Fahlun, Sweden. 



Native Antimony, Brunswick Mine, York County, New Brunswick. 



Native Tellurium in crystals, Facebay, Transylvania. 



Blende, Joplin, Missouri, U.S.A. 



Galena, Marsden Mine, Galena, Illinois, U.S.A. 



Very fine specimens of copper glance, from the (now unworked) Bristol Mines, Con- 

 necticut, U.S.A. 



Joseite with native bismuth, Sorato, Bolivia, South America. 



Jordanite, Imfeld, Binnenthal, Switzerland. 



Pyrostilpnite, Andreasberg, Harz, Germany. 



Rittingerite, Joachimsthal, Bohemia. 

 Polybasite, Andreasberg, Harz, Germany. 



Fine specimens of fluor (some containing fluid), from Weardale, Durham ; Taraar Mines, 

 Devonshire; Glen Gowlagh, County Galway; Spitzenberg, Goschenen Alp, Uri, 

 Switzerland; Adun-Tschilon, Trausbaikal, Asiatic Russia; and St. Louis, Missouri, 



An unusually fine and large crystal of chiolite, Miask, Orenburg, Russia. 



Fine specimens ofmatlockite and of cromfordite, near Matlock, Derbyshire. 



Crystallised fluocerile, Finbo, Fahlun, Sweden. 



Thomsenolite and ralstonite, Kangerdluarsuk, West Greenland. 



Atacamite, Wissen, Coblentz, Rhenish Prussia. 



Cuprite crystals presenting a rare heniisymmetry, Liskeard, Cornwall. 



Brucite, Brewster, New York, U.S.A. 



Gummite, Deak Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, U.S.A. 



Crystallised Jacobsite, Nordmarkeu, Wermland, Sweden. 



Zircons in matrix, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. 



Rutile, Magnet Cove, Hot Springs County, Arkansas, U.S.A. ; and Binnenthal, 

 Switzerland. 



Brookite, Magnet Cove, Hot Springs County, Arkansas, U.S.A. 



A large specimen of granite covered with bright crystals of smoky quartz, Graubiindten, 

 Switzerland. 



Fine amygdules of chalcedony containing water, in matri.x, Salto, Uruguav, South 

 America. , " 



A large and handsome specimen of coralloidal aragonite (/?av ferri) ; Eisenerz, 

 Styria. 



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