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Tyrol. This gem shows the play of colors peculiar to the diamond. 

 Specimens have also been found at Bridgewater Station, Pa. There are 

 two long andalusites of 1 and 2 carats 7 weight, stones which are at times 

 so dichroic that they have been offered in London as Alexandrites ; 

 also a square brilliant cut stone of 1 carat. No stones in this collection 

 show the dichroic property to the visitor so perfectly as these, they 

 being so cut as to show the red and green colors at once from the same 

 point of view. These are from Brazil, where fine green ones are also 

 obtained. 



Next in order are four light-green diopsides from De Kalb, N. Y., a 

 locality which has yielded 20-carat gems, of rich oil-green color, equal to 

 the 2 J carat cut-stone from Ala., in Piedmont. 



A small, long, 1-carat kyanite, from Russia, is noteworthy, as is also 

 the suite of opals, consisting of two noble cut stones, from Hungary, 

 and a polished slab of the light matrix from the same place, beautifully 

 mottled with opalescent spots ; a set of over twenty gems, white, yel- 

 low, and brown, from Queretaro, Mexico, and two milky opals without 

 the play of colors, from Honduras, an inch and an inch and a half long, 

 respectively; three pieces of blue opal, in the impure brown limonite, 

 or ironstone matrix, from the Baricoo River, Queensland, Australia, 

 termed opaline by the jewelers, and a cut stone from the same locality. 



Of turquoise, we have a bluish-green piece 1J inches long, cut into a 

 flat cabochon stone, from Los Cerillos, New Mex., a fine suite of tho 

 mineral in the matrix, recently brought on by Maj. J. W. Powell, from 

 New Mexico, and a set of twenty-four gems from Persia, showing all tho 

 characteristic gradations of color between blue and green ; a curious 

 three-quarter-inch cabochon cut stone, and a piece 1J inches long in the 

 matrix, from Persia, noticeable for the pleasing contrast of the bluish- 

 green stone on the background of chocolate color. A handsome suite, 

 consisting of a 1-inch flat cabochon and seven polished specimens of 

 turquoise in the matrix, from Los Cerillos, New Mex., has lately been 

 deposited by Mr. Thomas Donaldson, of Philadelphia. These vary in 

 color from the malachite-green to the rich light- blue, and in size from 

 1 by 2 by 3 inches to 3 by 4 by 6 inches. 



Hematite is exhibited, cut in the form of a ball and in a cut intaglio. 

 Displayed near these is a cut 1-carat r utile, from Alexander Couuty, 

 N. O. This so closely resembles the black diamond in color and luster 

 as to have been mistaken for it when first found. A large rhodonite, 

 cut en cabochon, is on the same pad with these specimens. 



A dark, almost black, hypersthene from Norway shows a pleasing 

 bronze-like reflection on the dome of the cabochon, while a polished 

 slab of lighter color is also quite attractive. Chlorastrolite is repre- 

 sented by three small polished pebbles from Isle Royale, Lake Superior. 

 One of the most instructive of the series is a quantity of gem -gravel 

 from Ceylon, containing sapphires of various colors, chrysoberyl, zircon, 

 quartz, and other stones. 



