GEOGRAPHERS, TOURISTS, and EMIGRANTS derive additional 

 pleasure from their rambles by being acquainted with Minerals, Rocks, and Fossils. 

 Mr. TENNANT, Geologist, 149 Strand, London, gives PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION 

 in MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY to Ladies and Gentlemen ; and from his extensive 

 collection, comprising many thousand specimens, persons are enabled in a dozen or 

 twenty lessons to acquire sufficient knowledge to identify all the ordinary components 

 of crystalline and volcanic rocks, and most of the minerals and metals used in the Arts. 



TO GEOLOGISTS AND MINERALOGISTS. For Sale. 



Two handsome Cabinets, measuring 9 feet 3 inches long, 2 feet 4 inches wide, and 3 feet 

 10 inches high ; each containing 45 drawers, with a Glass Case on the top of each Cabinet, 

 4 feet 11 inches high, and 15 inches from back to front. One Cabinet is filled with 

 Minerals, the other with Fossils. 



Any person wishing to become practically acquainted with the interesting and important 

 study of Mineralogy or Geology, or both, will find this a good opportunity to obtain an 

 instructive and valuable Museum. 



The Collection contains upwards of three thousand specimens, many very select. The first 

 Gold Nugget received from Australia, which was exhibited in the Exhibition of 1851, is in 

 the Collection, and cost .£37 ; it contains about 8 ounces of gold ; also a fine series of 

 Coloured Diamonds, illustrating crystalline form and colour. The specimens have been fre- 

 quently used to illustrate the Lectures on Mineralogy and Geology at King's College, and 

 at the Roval Military Academy, Woolwich*. Price 



THREE THOUSAND GUINEAS. 



Mr. Tennant has other Collections, at one thousand, five hundred, one hundred, down to 

 Students' Collections at fifty, twenty, ten, five, and two guineas each. 



* Mr. Tennant held the appointment of Lecturer on Geology and Mineralogy at Wool- 

 wich for seventeen years; the Lectures were discontinued in December 1867, Lectures on 

 Military History being substituted. 



Mr. Tennant is commissioned to sell several highly interesting Collections, viz. 

 A CABINET OF PEARLS AND PRECIOUS STONES, 



WITH DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE, 



and the extensive Collection of 



MINERALS, ROCKS, AND FOSSILS, 

 Collected by the late Lord Farnham. 

 Particulars can be had at 149 Strand, W.C. August 1869. 



SOPWITH'S GEOLOGICAL MODELS IN WOOD. 



Sold in Case, bound and lettered to resemble a large folio volume. 

 Twelve Models, 4 inches square Mb 



A Catalogue of 2000 of the most common Fossils found in the British Isles, being a list 

 of those in the private collection of J. Tennant, F.G.S. Price 2s. 



A descriptive List of Flint Implements found at St. Mary Bourne ; with Illustrations of 

 the principal types. By Joseph Stevens, Memb. Roy. Coll. Physicians, Lond. &c. Price 2*. 



All the recent Works relating to Mineralogy, Geology, Conchology, and Chemistry ; also 

 Geological Maps, Models, Diagrams, Hammers, Blowpipes, Magnifying Glasses, Platina 

 Spoons, Electrometer and Magnetic Needle, Glass-top Boxes, Microscopic Objects, Brass 

 and Steel Forceps, Acid Bottles, &c, can be supplied to the Student in these interesting 

 and important branches of Science. 



Size of the Gold Nugget found, April 1869, 

 at Kildonan, Sutherland. It contains two oz. 

 of gold. A gilt Model can be had, price 2s. 6d„ 

 of J. Tennant, 149 Strand, London, W.C. 



M' 



/TODEL of the first GOLD NUGGET received from Australia in 1851. ■ Th« 



«- original is in the possession of J. Tennant, Mineralogist to Her Majesty, 

 and contains about Eight Ounces of Gold. Price of the Model 3s. 6d, with glass- 

 topped box to hold it, Is. 6d.,— together, 5s. 



Model of the " Welcome " Gold Nugget, being the largest brought to England 

 from Australia : it contained Gold to the value of £8,376. Price of the Model £3 3s. 



JAMES TENNANT, Mineralogist to Her Majesty, 149 Strand, W.C. 



