CIEMS OF AUSTEALIA. 



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Cataiogue of G-ems exhibited to tlie Eoyal Society, in illustration of the fore- 

 going paper, as collected and classified by G-eo. Milner Stephen, Esq., 

 F.a.S., &c. 



Name. 



Locality where found. 



(White, straw-colour, greenish), fi'om 1^ 

 carats weight downwards, in octahe- 

 drons, dodecahedrons, and icositetra- 

 hedrons (24 sides) . 



EUBIES.* 



Sapphires. 

 (Blue, gi'een, yellow, brown, white, 

 bronze, blue and green, blue and white, 

 blue and black) ; some exhibiting 

 opalescence, dichroism, floating stars 

 of six rays (asterias), fixed stars of do., 

 black hexagonal centres. In more or 

 less perfect hexagonal crystals, — or 

 water-worn, — and cut and polished ; 

 from f inch downwards. 



COEUNDUM. 

 (Opaque Sapphires.) 

 Violet, or Barklyite Rubies. 

 Blue (a hexagon). 

 G-reen. 



Topazes. 

 Blue, white, yellow, pink 

 crystals, more or less 



In hexagonal 

 modified, and 



water-worn, also cut and polished. 



Zircons. 

 Eed (hyacinths), yellow, white (jargoons). 

 In cubic-octahedral crystals, and 

 water-worn, and cut and polished. 



Spineiles. 



Balas Rubies, (s. a.=:3-571). Oriental 



Amethysts, Automalites, (red, violet, 



black), in octahedi-al crystals, and 



water-worn. 



Gahnets. 



Almandines, Pyropes, Precious, Common, 

 (Claret-colored, port-wine-colored, red, 

 dingy red, black, yellow, white, green), 

 in icositetrahedral (24 sides), and 

 dodecahedral (12 sides) crystals j and 

 water-worn. 



The rivers Cudgegong, 

 Macquarie, Shoalhaven, 

 and Bingara, in New 

 England. 



Cudgegong 

 Mudgee. 



River, near 



New England, Abercrombie 

 River, near Mudgee, 

 Shoalhaven River, Rocky 

 River, in New South 

 Wales : Ovens District, 

 Ballaarat, Mount Frank- 

 lyn District, in Victoria. 



Ovens District, Victoria. 



New England. 



New England, Abercrombie 

 River, Shoalhaven River, 

 in N.S.W. : Ovens Dis- 

 trict, Yarra River, 

 Dunolly, in Victoria : 

 Cape Barren Island. 



New England, Abercrombie 

 River, Trunkey Creek, 

 Shoalhaven River, in 

 N.S.W. : Ovens District, 

 Mount Erauklyn, in 

 Victoria. 



Mount Franklyn and Ovens 

 District, in Victoria. 



Cudgegong River, New 

 South Wales. 



Ovens District, Victoria. 

 Trunkey Creek, New South 



Wales. 

 Abercrombie River, New 



South Wales. 

 Hardwicke, near Yass, 



N.S.W.: Queensland. 



