ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Departmental Library. 



To the Library have been added 208 separate wor'is (in 284 vohmies), and 44 

 memoirs and pamphlets. 



601 entries have been made in the register of books and periodicals received, and 253 

 volumes, 87 memoirs, and 855 plates have been stamped and catalogued. 



56 volumes have been bound, and 389 volumes have been sent away for binding. 



The re-cataloguing of the whole Library for the new General Catalogue has been 

 commenced ; 2,955 volumes and 30 memoirs have now been catalogued. 



Visitors. 



The number of visits recorded as made to the Department for purposes of consulta- 

 tion or study is 733. 



Acquisitions. 



884 specimens have been acquired during the year 1888, namely, 260 minerals, 595 

 rocks, and 29 meteorites. 



These have been registered, numbered, labelled, and placed in the collection. The more 

 important of them ■ re named below : — 



Minerals. 



Hi/ Jh'cseiifation : — 



Millerlte ; Glamorganshire ; by Lieut. Col. Rimington. 



IStibnite; Queen Cliarlotte Siound, New Zealand; by Sir Walter Buller, D.sc, F.R.s. ; 

 and the same by the New Zealand Antimony Company. 



Diatomite ; Diunet, Aberdeenshire ; by K. V. Boyle, Esq. 



Celestite in large crystals ; Cattolica, Sicily ; by Miss Hcrschel. 



Silver ores ; Georgetown, Colorado ; by Townshend Griffin, Esq. 



Gold and silver ores ; Colorado and Arizona ; by H. E. Dresser, Esq. 



Sulphur ; TeuerifFe ; by Graham Toler, Esq. 



Enhydros ; Salto, Uruguay ; by J. Galloway, Esq. 



Lithidlonite ; Mount Vesuvius; by Miss C. Birley. 



Gold ; Witwatersrand, Transvaal ; by Morris Herz, Esq. 



Greenockite ; Wanlockhead, Dumfriess-shire ; by Patrick Dudgeon, Esq. 



Analcite and Gmelinite ; Pyrgos, Cyprus; by H. Bauerman, Esq., F.G.S. 



A remarkably rich specimen of gold from the Morgan mine, Dolgelly, North Wales; 

 by Piitchard Morgan, Esq., M.P. 



Twenty specimens of zinc ores ; Silesia ; by Hermann Koenigs, Esq. 



Galena on an iron tool; Wheelsdrake mines, Haddon Hall, Derbyshire ; by Colonel 

 A. G. Harsthorne. 



Mineral Pitch; Pitch Lake, Trinidad ; by the Dowager Countess of Dundonald. 



Manganese Ores ; Monaghan, Ireland ; by J. Campbell Hall, Esq., m.b. 



Jade ; by Mrs. Horsfall. 



Gold ; Columbia River, British Columbia ; by Captain A. E. McCallum. 



Fibrolite and Sapphire; Loire Inferieure; by M. Ch. Baret. 



JBy Purchase : — 



Barytes, in long blue crystals ; Pallaflat, St. Bees, Cumberland. 

 Hetaerolite ; Sterling Hill, New Jersey, U.S.A. 



Cupro-uranite in unusually fine crystals ; West Wheal Bassett, Redruth, Cornwall. 

 Hessite; Botes, Zalathua, Transylvania. 



Rhodochrosite, finely crystallised ; Alicante, Lake County, Colorado, U.S.A. 

 Calcozincite ; Sterling, New Jersey, U.S.A. 



Celestite ; a series of very fine specimens recently discovered ; Yate, Gloucestershire. 

 Biharite ; Rezbanya, Hungary. 

 Homilite ; Langesund, Norway. 



Dolomite in well defiiied crystals; Biunenthal, Wallis, Switzerland. 

 Phenacite ; Florissant, El Paso County, Colorado, U.S.A. 

 Szaibelyite ; Rezbanya, Hungary. 



Vanadiuite in brilliant crystals; Yuma County, Arizona, U.S.A. 

 Cronstedtite ; Kuttenberg, Bohemia. 



A remarkably fine specimen of Apojjhyllite ; Guanaxuato, Mexico. 

 Proustite ; Chaiiarcillo, Chili. 



Boracite in brilliant crystals ; Westeregeln, Magdeburg, Prussia. 

 Very large cubic crystals of Green Fluor; Oltschi Al|), Brienz, Switzerland. 

 Scheelite, the largest crystals hitherto found ; Rothlaue, Guttannen, Switzerland. 

 Witherite, in exceptionally large and fine crystals with Bromlite and Burytocalcite ; 

 Fallowfield mine, Hexham, Northumberland. 

 Barysite ; Pajsberg, Wermland^ Sweden. 

 Eudidymite ; Aro, Brevig, Norway. 



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