Ninth Supplement to Dana’s Mineralogy. 361 
A bright red a dead asia ii (spessartine) from Miask, analyzed by 
Lissenko, contain 
A Mn Fe Ca 
0 17°48 50°60 14:32 0°51 = 99°21 
kine. tin Russlands, werng te Vebersicht, 1859, '74.) 
Gersporrrire [p. 58, VII, VIII].—A massive variety of ber hig Pele from Pfingst- 
wiese spear Ems afforded Pega "al prakt, Chem., 12): 
S As Sb Co Fe ie 
21°51 33°25 0°62 22- Pe 164 16°64 4°01=100°46 
Excluding the copper it resembles the ferruginous variety of gersdorfite from 
ca re in Styria analyzed by Ples 
BsitE [p. 134, 506, IV].—In noticing Rammels st be kd ocd we have 
siveady called attention to his ‘treatinent of this spec We here repeat, that 
onfirmed the original result as given by Dr. Torrey, namely, that the 
aa is a hydrate oa pth and even purer than the crystalline hgdrargillite 
the Ura 
e do n ot pr retend to determine what Hermann examined, if if was really a 
Dicsbolnte, “ most probably did not come from Richmond. e are, however, some- 
what at loss to understand the following statement made in Hermann 
tion of the alumina, then ammonia in excess, and finally su culph a e of magnesia, with- 
out producing any precipitate of phosphate of magnes hed. ammonia. This is 
pie a startling fact for a mineral in which he claims ito rene found from 11:90 
0 3762 pr. ct. 
clude that this negativ idence w sufficiently satisfacto: monstration of 
the absence of any considerable amount of phosphoric acid in so 
ave been un 0 : mg any reaction for phosphoric acid in Gibbsite oe the 
abov thod, but ve never experienced gif a in detecting it by this 
we 
ns in Wavellite or plieaphate of alumina.—. 
Gresrcrrre.—DesCloizeaux has confirmed the tert ges ad god Tes of this 
eae by a an examination of its spi properties.—(2¢ Mem 
3 Analysis of gmelinite, discovered by Gand 7 near it ba Ba in 
the ps d mg Ah by Damour (Bullet. Soc. Géol. (2) xvi, 675, in Jahrb. Min. 
1860, 78). 
Si Al Ca Na K H 
= 2°07 7% 19°55 5°26 5°51 078 22°00 = 99°47 
> tr ‘ ae I, If, V-VIl] ign gs r. Genth’s interesting bg ewbieccend on the 
ka see this Jou r. [2], xviii, 258. This paper has ae anslated 
a tepabietiee by Prof. Cotta in his “ Gangstudien.” Freiberg, 1 
ced [p. 92, II-IV].—R. See cameras — ae 
Kirghes e-Steppes, ‘covering an ee = A to 10 square were, x 
Werst == 3500 feet) occurring in cap pres in clay slate. This 
Stance had a slaty structure nee peri ed 40°55 ite, 56°56 earthy cls 
ru 
280 water. Specific gravity = 2°60.—Bull.d. Natur. de Moscou, 1858, 530, Kenn- 
gott, Uebersicht, 1859, (105. 
me [p. 323 f harmotome from Arsirensherg and Stron- 
tian, Cacasetie: (Pog. ‘Ann, ex, yee), 
rH K Ka it 
1. Andreasberg, 4849 1635 2008 207 tr. 1800 99:99 
2. Strontian, 47 2 age ‘04 ge. 1:00 103 © 13-45 10025 
ratio of R, is as 10:5, taking silica as Si02, Ram. 
RF eaagcaniy the formula ‘Bak K, Na) Bi8 ree Si? 4-58. For the relations ba. 
tween this species and phillipsite see the original 
