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\K CrARN-ETS ! ! — Intelligence has just reached us from Mr. 



Niven that he has made a big strike of these new and wonderfully 



dutiful Mexican Garnets. Until now we have had ten orders for 



ry crystal we could get. We hope inside of a month to be able to 



11 orders. The color is a delicate pink, the crystals good sized 



<?ing an inch in diameter) and of the rhombic dodecahedron 



Particulars can be better given next month. 



^*AMi* — We are assured by the owner of the mine in Aus- 



vhom we secured this magnificent specimen, that it is the 



>est ever discovered. The predominating color is a deep, 



^e brilliant green which plays through the blue is truly 



> Silyer Minerals now in Stock. 



Mr. Niven °an trip has been yielding us some really remark- 

 able specimen Mkely that a new selenium-silver species will be 

 announced sho. nlendid Pyrargyrite specimens are already in 

 —two at $50.00 e nber of very choice Argentite crystals, Poly- 

 basite crystals, Stt T s, Embolite crystals, and lodyrite. * 



Other Extra Fin T inerals Collected by Mr. Niven. 



Hyalite, the finest an ve yet had. 



Topaz Crystals, a few c two inches long. 



Opal-Agate, richly colore^ ,y banded. 



Smithsonites from New Me. .ich blue-green and well crystallized. 



Caledonite, Cubical Yellow Wulfenite, Flos Ferri, Turquois, &c, New 

 Mexico. 



Brochantite, Aurichalite, Chalcotrichites and Brown, barrel-shaped Vana- 

 dinites from Arizona. 



Large Beryl Crystals from New Hampshire. 



Zeolites, the best we have had, from Nova Scotia. 



Microlites, a small lot from Virginia. 



Patterson, N. J., Zeolites, including extra good Datolite crystals, Prehnite, 

 Heulandite in loose crystals, Quartz pseudomorphs after Pectolite, &c. 



Fyromorphites from Ems, about 70 choice specimens, the result of nine 

 years careful collecting by our agent at the locality. 



Other Minerals from Germany: Pyrolusite, well-crystallized, Anglesite, 

 Rhodochrosite, Gothite, Linnceite, Sphalerite, Boracite — all the foregoing in 

 good crystals. 



From England. — A large and fine shipment of Iridescent Pyrite on Calcite, 

 Cassiterite crystals, Twin Calcites, Stark & Bigrigg Mine Calcites, Blue 

 Barites, Kidney Ore, Iridescent Dolomite, Marcasite balls, Aragonite crys- 

 tals, Fluorite crystals, Native Bismuth, Childrenite crystals, &c. 



Many other Important Additions, too numerous to more than mention, in- 

 clude a few of the finest Vanadinites and Descloizites we have had ; Calcites 

 and Rich Rose Quartz from Dakota ; Jade in choice polished slabs from 

 New Zealand ; Tourmaline sections, polished, from Brazil, very rich in color; 

 Millerites, Siderites, &c, from Antwerp, N. Y.; &c, &c. 



Williams' " Elements of Crystallography," only $1.25 (postage 10c.) to our 

 customers. 



Our 100 pp. Illustrated Catalogue, paper bound, 15c, cloth bound, 25c. 



GEO. L. ENGLISH & CO., Mineralogists, 

 Removed to 733 & 735 Broadway, New York. 



