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sonite xx, Blende xx, Sulphuret of Tin xx, Tennantite xx, Sulphuret of Copper xx, 

 Copper Pyrites xx, Fluellin xx, Childrenite xx, Wavellite. 



2. From Scotland.-— Greenockite xx, Prehnite xx, Felspar xx, Chabasite xx, Stil- 

 bite xx, Withamite xx, Harmotome xx, Brewsterite xx, Edingtonite xx, Laumonite 

 xx, Strontianite xx, Mesotype xx, Sulphato Carbonate of Lead xx, Sulphato Tri-Car- 

 bonate of Lead xx, Carbonate of Lead xx, Cupreous Sulphate of Lead xx, Cupreous 

 Sulphato Carbonate of Lead xx, Topaz xx from Mar and Cairngorm, Hydrate of 

 Magnesia from Swinness, Thomsonite xx, Stellite, Apophyllite xx from Fifeshire, 

 Red Hewlandite. 



3. From Ireland. — Felspar xx from Newry, Topaz xx, Beril xx, Antrimolite, Le- 

 vyine, Gmelinite, Chabasite xx, Apophyllite xx, Natrolite, Harringtonite, Analcime 

 xx, Erinite xx. 



4. — Minerals from the East Indies, New Holland, the Cape of Good Hope, Brasil, 

 Peru, Chili, Mexico, Spain, and Portugal. 



5. From Hindostan. — Apophyllite and Poohnahlite xx from Poonah, Mesotype xx, 

 Stilbite xx, Zircon xx, Diamond xx, Corundum xx, (Sapphir xx), Ceylonitexx, (Spi- 

 nell xx), Red Tourmaline xx, etc. etc. 

 Address : Dr. Fr. Tamnan, Jun. Berlin, Prussia, care of Mr. Ed. Nicol, Stettin, or 



Mr. H. Pontoppidan, Hamburgh, or Messrs. F. Behm and Co. Dantzig. 



In reply to it 1 may say that we shall soon, I trust, be in a position to say what we can 

 spare, but that we have first heavy debts to pay off, for which the very few duplicates of 

 rare and Indian minerals we possess will certainly not be too many. And with refer- 

 ence to this matter I may repeat here what I had occasion to remark, touching both 

 geological and mineralogical specimens in India, in a former report namely ; that 

 we unfortunately receive, for the most part, but single geological series, or speci- 

 mens of minerals, and then that twenty years may elapse before we obtain another; 

 so that while in Europe no sooner is a mineral or geological locality known as produc- 

 ing something of value to collectors, than it is ransacked, and in fact made a mine of, 

 till the supply equals the demand, or as is sometimes the case, till the mineral is ex- 

 hausted ; in India we obtain a notice and specimens, or a series or two, and then even 

 at our very doors, no more are to be obtained till another geologist or mineralogist visits 

 the spot. I quoted there the case of Captain Franklin's specimens from the Diamond 

 mines of Punnah ; I may add in explanation of the words " our very doors" used above, 

 and as a striking instance of what I wish here to explain, that I have now been for the 

 last two years endeavouring to obtain a supply of the vegetable impressions from the 

 coal shales of our Burdwan coal mines, and that I have not yet succeeded ! We have 

 a very beautiful collection of them presented by Dr. Royle ten or fifteen years ago, 

 but none to spare ; and yet these things are but the rubbish of the mines ! — and within 

 fifty miles of Calcutta ! 



Museum of Economic Geology. — 1 have here the pleasure to announce the discovery 

 of an Indian Lithographic Stone, almost equal to the German. It is another of the 

 specimens sent down by Capt. Shortrede from near Rewah, as noticed at the last meet- 

 ing and Mr. Black's letter relative to it is as follows :— 



To H. Piddington, Esq. Sub-Secretary to the Asiatic Society, Calcutta. 



Sir, — I have pleasure in sending a few impressions taken off the two little stones you 

 first sent me; those from the larger piece have come off well, and 1 think if a slab of 



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