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



By Purchase : — 



Diamond in Itacolumite ; Brazil. 



Argentite in large cubo-cctahcdra ; Clianarcillo, Chili. 



Copper Pyrites ; Liskeard, Cornwall. 



Chiviatite ; (-hiviato, Peru. 



Specimens of the new mineral Argyrodite (which contains the new element, Germa- 

 niumj ; Hininjelsfiirst mine, Freiberg, Saxony. 



Cryj^tallised Ullmannite; Montemarhe, Sardinia. 



Alaskaite ; Alaska Mine, Poughkeepsie, Colorado. 



Taznite ; 'I'azna, Bolivia. 



lodobroiiiite ; Dernbach, Naf?au. 



A fine specimen of green Fluor; Weardale, Durham. 



Cryolite in unusually fine crystals ; Evigtok, Greenland. 



Specimens of Cuprite, Malachite, Chessylite, and Aurichalcite ; Copper Queen Mine, 

 Arizona, U.S.A. 



Ateline; from the eruption of ]\It. Vesuvius in 1881. 



Fine crystals of Rutilc ; Alexander Co., N. Carolina. 



Cleveite ; Skraatorpkygge, Moss, Norway. 



Melanophlogite in exceptionally large crystals ; Girgenti, Sicily. 



Fine crystals of Quartz; Herkimer Co., New Yoik. 



Precious Opal in RhyoUte; Zimapan, Mexico. 



Very fine twinned crystals of Calcile ; Eyani, Derbyshire. 



Finely crystallised specimens of Calcite ; The iron mines, Furness, Lancashire. 



Aragonite ; Fort Collins, Colorado. 



Hydrogiobertite, a new mineral; Monte Somma, Vesuvius. 



Fowlerite in exceptionally fine crystals ; Franklin, Sussex Co., U.S.A. 



Pericline in large crystals; near Zermatt. 



A large specimen of finely coloured Chrysocolla ; Clifton, Arizona. 



Si)ecimens of Epidote ; Zoptau, Moravia. 



A facetted specimen of Euclase; a doubly terminated crystal of the same, a great 

 rarity, from Brazil; and Euclase on mica schist; the Mountains betweeu Carinthia and 

 Tyrol. 



Datolite; Seisser Alpe, Tyrol: and Modena, Italy. 



Crystals of Topaz ; Prov. Mino, Japan : Durango, Mexico; and Pike's Peak, Colo- 

 rado. 



Specimens of the new minerals Zunyite and Guitermanite ; and of Megabasite and 

 Enargite ; Silverton, Colorado. 



A crystal of Emerald exce])tionally modified ; Santa Fe de Bogota, S. America. 



Eosterite ; San Piero, Elba. 



An unusual y fine crystal of jNIilarite; Val Giuf, Switzerland. 



A remarkably fine specimen of Epistilbite ; Teigarhorn, Iceland. 



Magnificent specimens of red Wulfenite ; Melissa mine, Arizona, U.S.A. 



Wulfenite ; Oigan Mountains, New Mexico. 



Barytes; Frizzington, Cumberland. 



Fine specimens of crystallised Colemanite, a new mineral ; San Bernardino Co., Cali- 

 fornia. 



Crystallised Bou5singaultite ; Sasso, Siena, Tuscany. 



Fine specimens of Vanadinite ; Arizona 



Descloizite ; Sierra Grande mine. Lake Valley, New Mexico. 



Schneebei'gite ; Schneeberg, Tyrol. 



Uranothallite ; Joachimsthal, Bohemia. 



Polyarsenite, a new mineral; ^jogrufvan, Sweden. 



Crystals of Apatite ; Durango, Mexico. 



Pyromorphite ; Friedrichssegen mine. Ems, Nassau. 



Schraufite, a resin ; VVamma, Bukowina, Austria. 



Duxite, a resin ; Dux, Bohemia. 



Of the above minerals Argyrodite. Alaskaite, Taznite, lodobromite, Ateline, Hydro- 

 giobertite, Zunyite, Guitermanite, Rosterite, Colemanite, Uranothallite, Plattnerite, 

 Polyarsenite, Schraufite, and Duxite are new to the collection, as are also specimens of 



Annerodite, Arsenolamprite, and Schneebergite. 



Rocks. 

 Jii) Presentation : — 



A series of the Protogines of Mt. Blanc ; by the late Richard Fort, Esq. 



Rocks; Cumberland ; by H. A. Miers, Esq., M.A. 



Obsidian; Aurora, Nevada; by 'J'. Davies, Esq., F.G.S. 



Uralite Porphyry; Dolgelly, Merionethshire; by T. A. Readwin, Esq., F.G.S. 



A collection of rocks from Western Australia ; by E. T. Hardmau, Esq. 



Rocks from the Diamond Fields, S. Africa ; by F. Schute, Esq., f.g.S. 



