532 REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1886. 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 



Steatite [soap stone]. Fine; compact; light blue gray. Ou land of W. W. Evans, 

 north of Woodley Lane road, Washington. Dr. William S. Mcllhenney, 1886. 

 38510. 



FLORIDA. 



Limestone. Oolitic; porous and friable; nearly white. Key West. New Orleans 

 Exposition, 1885. 37631. 



Coarse shell rock ("coquina "); light colored. Suwannee River. John S. F. 



Batchen, 1884. 35898. 

 Sandstone. Phosphatic; light colored; coarsely cellular. Near Hawthorne, Alachua 



County. C. A. Simmons's quarry. Tenth Census. 25208. 

 Phosphatic; nearly white ; coarsely vesicular. Suwannee River. John S. F. 



Batchen, 1884. 35899. 



GEORGIA. 



Limestone [marble]. Lower Silurian; pink; coarse; crystalline. Tate, Pickens 



County. Georgia Marblo Company, 1886. 38367. 

 Lower Silurian; white with dark blotches; coarse; crystalline. Two speci- 

 mens. Tate, Pickens County. Georgia Marble Company, 1886. 38368. 



Lower Silurian; pure white; coarse; crystalline. Turned column, 6 inches 



long, 1 inch diameter. Tate, Pickens County. Georgia Marble Company, 

 1886. 38370. 



Lower Silurian ; white and dark mottled ; coarse; crystalline. Tate, Pickens 



County. Georgia Marble Company, 1886. 38369. 

 Dolomite [marble]. Purplish gray ; fine and compact. Near Chattauooga, Catoosa 



County. Chickamaugua quarry. Tenth Census, 1880. 25916. 

 Muscovite granite. Fine ; light gray. Stone Mountain Station, ou Georgia 

 Railroad, De Kalb County. Stone Mountain quarry. Tenth Census, 1880. 25905. 

 Hornblende biotite gneiss. Fine; dark gray. Atlanta, Fulton County. P. 



Lynch's quarry. Tenth Census, 1880. 25892. 

 Gneiss [with pagodite]. Light green. A gneissoid rock containing green pago- 

 dite. Pagodite is a soft hydrous rock, from which the Chinese sometimes carve 

 miniature pagodas ; hence it s name. 3£ by 4 by 2 inches. Near Washington, 

 Wilkes County. Prof. C. N. Shepard, 1880. 26818. 



IDAHO. 



Sandstone. Coarse; light colored. Near Bois6 City, Ada County. Penitentiary 

 quarry. Tenth Census. 26660. 



Coarse; light colored. Near Boisd City, Ada County. Penitentiary quarry. 



Tenth Census. 26661. 



ILLINOIS. 



Limestone. Sub-Carboniferous; semi-crystalline; dark gray. Two specimens. 

 Shetlervillo, Hardin County. G. A. Craiger's quarry. Tenth Census, 1880. 

 26393. 

 Sub-Carboniferous; fiucly fossiliferous ; brown. Near Chester, Randolph 



County. J. Hern's quarry. Tenth Census, 18S0. 25744. 

 Sub-Carboniferous; semi-crystalline; dark gray. Chester, Randolph County. 



J. Hern's quarry. Tenth Census, 1880. 25685. 

 Sub-Carboniferous; semi-crystalline; light gray. Near Chester, Randolph 



County. Quarry of Southern Illinois Penitentiary. Tenth Census, 1880. 



25686. 



