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so well will be perpetuated, under the auspices of the Academy, 
by a noble endowment bestowed in memoriam by his devoted 
wife.”* The record of his researches and discoveries in the new 
volume will further make his energy a lasting source of progress 
to science. 
8. Fourth Annual Report of the State mates eee of Cali- 
fornia, for the year ending May 15, 1884. 410 pp. 8vo. Sacra- 
mento, 1884.—Mr. Henry G. Hanks, the State miner alogist, has 
manufacturing resources of the State, and a third giving a cata- 
logue and description of the miner: al of California, with special 
reference to those having an economic value. is catalogue 
extends to nearly 350 pages and describes 161 species, alphabeti- 
cally arranged. The tal as aa ral coal are mentione od in 
inerals from Middletown, Conn., i Won Poi (com- 
municated in a letter to Prof. G. J. Brush, dated Tan 17).—The 
following additional finds of minerals in this s vicinity may be 
worthy of notice :—Monazite, at Hale’s quarry, in northern part 
cles of cerussite effervescing with nitric acid, from the green non- 
effervescent mote’ of pyromorphite. 
hese minerals, with the regs previously noticed—samarskite, 
thodonite, Torbernite,—make a considerable addition to the 
paene: long list of minerals ohace ved in our granite veinstone, 
0. Ch hrysoberyl in Maine—Mr. N. H. Perry, of South Paris, 
acinar states that he has found chrysoberyl at Stoneham, also at 
Canton, Peru, Norway and Stow, but thus far not in fine speci- 
mens. Some of the small dark colored crystals in the fibrolite at 
Stoneham are however quite perfect in form. The small crystals 
occur at Canton and Stow with large coarse crystals. 
* See this Journal, III, xxviii, 77, 1884, 
