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The APPS: is habe to be present, one-half as cuprous, one-half 
as cupric 
Native Putas Gold, from esha: near Slaiyai Minas 
Geraes, Brazil, has been analyzed by W. H. Szamo N, containing 
8°2 per cent palladium ; specific gravity 15°73, the ie was dark 
or bronze-like 
14. Analyses of Dunburite from Switzerland.—The occurrence 
of danburite on the Skopi, Switzerland, has already been mega, 
The following analyses, 1 by Schrauf, 2 by Bodewig, (Z. Kryst., 
391) show that it corresponds exactly with the American ileal 
Si0. B.0; CaO Fe,0s, AlsOs ign. 
L. 48:92 [2688] 21°97 1-37 0°36= 100-00 
2 (3) 4866 2809 22°90 0-23 0°08 
15. Native Lead and Minium in Idaho; by W. P. Buaxn. 
(Communicated).—These comparatively rare species are found 
a 
s from an 
eighth to one-quarter of an inch in diameter, and sometimes “9 
irregularly reniform bunches, weighing an ounce or more. 
red oxide is in ~~ form of coatings or crusts on the sasotals 
N satin are abundan 
16. Topaz from fonubens Maine—At the meeting of the 
New York Academy of Sciences, held Noy. 7th, 1882, Mr. 
Kunz announced the discovery b him a t Stoneham, a omiar de of 
nt ) Pore pia acetic acids occur in protoplasm throughout the 
