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various positions. Figure 93 of Beck is identical with that previously 
mentioned in Dana’s first edition. 
In the fifth edition of Philip’s Elementary Treatise on Mineralogy, 
edited by Francis Alger and published in 1844, a twinned crystal from 
Rossie is illustrated which differs somewhat from those of Beck, but shows 
only the forms OR and R. 
In a review of Beck’s Mineralogy of New York by J. D. Dana, pub- 
lished in the American Journal of Science 1844, the latter writer adds 
two figures illustrating the calcite from Rossie, the first of which is of 
special interest as showing several modifying planes. It is unfortunately 
impossible positively to identify these forms as no crystallographic 
description is given in the text and the lettering of the figure could not 
be traced. 
Leonhard, in the Jahrbuch jur Mineralogie 1849, notes eight New York 
localities for calcite all of which were described by Beck. 
In a report embodying additional notes on the mineralogy of New York, 
published in the Third Annual Report of the State Cabinet of Natural H1s- 
tory 1850, Beck republishes the illustration from Alger noted above and 
adds a cut of a crystal of prismatic habit from Tompkins Cove twinned 
parallel to— $R. Two woodcuts which accompany this paper show cal- 
cite from Anthony’s Nose, Westchester co. of prismatic habit, tabular 
parallel to the basal plane. 
In the Fourth Annual Report of the State Cabinet of Natural History 
1851, Franklin B. Hough figures several simple combinations of the forms 
OR, R and R3 from Wegatchie, St Lawrence co. as well as a complex twin 
crystal from Gouverneur in the same county. The latter shows no lettering 
by which the forms can be identified but is apparently a combination similar 
to those previously noted from Rossie. 
Zippe, in a monograph published in 1852, notes in figure 10, plate I a 
crystal of calcite from Rossie in K.K. Hof-Mineral-Cabinet an inch in size. 
On this crystal he observed the forms R, 4R and 4R2 and also notes on small 
drusy crystals from the same specimen the forms —2R and #R2. 
