THE 

 LONDON, EDINBURGH, and DUBLIN 



PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE 



AND 



JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 



[FOURTH SERIES.] 



MARCH 1866. 



XXII. Contributions to the Mineralogy of Nova Scotia. By 

 Professor How, D.C.L., University of King's College, Wind- 

 sor, Nova Scotia*. 



I. 



IN the present series of communications I propose giving 

 such analytical details and other information interesting to 

 the mineralogist as have accumulated during several years' study 

 of the minerals of Nova Scotia, and have not appeared in my 

 previous papersf, and such as I may continue to obtain. In a 

 succession of articles in the Transactions of the Nova Scotia In- 

 stitute of Natural Science, the mineralogy of the province is 

 being considered from an economic point of view j. In the last 



* Communicated by the Author. 



t These papers are the following : — 



"On the Occurrence of Natroborocalcite in Gypsum of Nova Scotia" 

 (Silliman's Journal, 1857). 



" Analysis of Faroelite and some other Zeolitic Minerals occurring in 

 Nova Scotia" (Silliman's Journal, 1858). 



" Analysis and Description of Three New Minerals from Trap of Nova 

 Scotia" (Edinb. New Phil. Journ. 1859). 



"On an Oil-Coal from Pictou Co., Nova Scotia" (Silliman's Journal, 

 and Edinb. New Phil. Journ. 1860). 



"On Gyrolite occurring in Trap of Nova Scotia" (Edinb. New Phil. 

 Journ., and Silliman's Journal, 1861). 



" On Natroborocalcite and another Borate in Gypsum of Nova Scotia " 

 (Silliman's Journal, 1861). 



" On Pickering] te occurring in Nova Scotia " (Quart. Journ. Chem. Soc. 

 1863). 



" On Mordenite, a New Mineral from Trap of Nova Scotia " (Quart. 

 Journ. Chem. Soc. 1864). 



X " Notes on the Economic Mineralogy of Nova Scotia " (Trans. Nova 

 Scotia Institute, parts 1 & 2). 



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