374 Eighth Supplement to Dana’s Mineralogy. 
iron had a grayish-white color, a Peso! fracture, and broke easily into fragments, 
which though crysialline, did n w any distinct planes. It was soft, ——- 
scratching fluor-spar. Lustre pcetieers metallic. Readily dissolved by nitric 
mposition :— 
Fe Ni Co Si 
99°790 07140 tr. 0°022 0 18 0-075 = 100148 
A similar mineral has been received by Dr. Genth from Northern Ala Alabama, an 
is exceedingly desirable that more definite Ceedtlon n should be ‘obtained in be i 
to the locality and mode of occurrence of this problematical substance 
Kerareyerire [p. 92, JV].—A specimen of chlorid of silver from the « Republi- 
cana Mine,” -Chafiarcillo, analyzed by F. Field (Quar. Jour. Chem. Soc,, x, 289) con- 
tained: 
ise one ig ts 8 
Lapravorire [p. 237, II, VIT].—Vom Rath gives as ge composition of the lab- 
radorite from the gabbro of Marmorera in Graubiin dte 
Si Fe Ca K Na 
GH 7840. 5545 2212 498 968 130 164 57910020 
Phage “eee lost 2°76 p. c. on ignition—Zeitsch. d, deutschen geolog. Gesellschaft, 
ETHENITE [p. 420].—Analyses of nage gee from Congo in Portuguese 
by i ah Miller (1.) (Gane Jour. Chem. 942); from Libethen (2.) iy er 
a , and from Nischne-Tagilsk (3.) - ‘Ohya (Kopp’s Jahresbericht, 185% 
aa Se : 
721 28°76 408 = 10000 
1. Congo, ; 66°76 2 4:22 =100°00 
2 Libethen, a Oho 2646 290 408 pa 
8, Nischne-Tagilsk, 64:47 99-48 368 9-177 «= 82==10022 
LILLITE, Reuss (Wien Akad. Ber., xxv, <0) s name has been given vd 
ss to a mineral which occurs at Przibram in Dicker: 
it resembles sindbis an bea Gack ct of the decomposition of ge 
an amorph streless, ey substance, having a hardness = 2, and sp. § 
043. Color blackish-green, in very fine powder under the microscope % a 
ae by transmitted light. Material selected as pure as possible gave Payt 
esos 
Si Fe Cad 7. A ae H - 
8248 = 54-95 es 10-20 = 10028 
On treating the mineral with nitric acid, He ayr “é und after ignition ee roe 
allowance for the water, the pt of the pyrites, and the car rbonic acid, ng thi 
iron i i bsorbed a 
iron in the mineral had al 3°43 per cent of o: , 80 that ded 
from the 54:95 #e we have 2 per aah of iron hte cave en, This he 
of 96°79, a loss of 3:21 per cent in the an The author places the species; | 
hisingerite a crons It corresponds very closely in chemical com: eee 
Min the variety of hisingerite i Riddarhyttan in whi | 
od 
#e Fe Ca Mg Tt 
33°07 34°78 17°59 2°56 0°46 ie 
and Frank 
coon [p. 447, II, IIT].—Analyses of the wo, from Snarum 
enstein by T. Scheerer (Jour. £ prakt. Chem., Ixxvi, 424): 
6 g e 
Snarum apse 52138 = 46°66 = 0°78 me ode 
PS onwemage n (amorphous), 55°34 4743 —- 10 
small amount of mechanical mixture, amounting in the wai 
9°05--0'1405 per cent, and in the Pesnhenttehe specimen to.0°048 p. % 
subtracted from the above. 
