44 ON SOME NEW SOUTH WALES MINERALS. 
Fie. 1. 
Group of Gold Crystals in Edinburgh Museum. 
abundant. Unfortunately most of them very quickly find their 
way into the melting-pot, and of the few which have been pre- 
served, probably even fewer are to be found in Australia than 
elsewhere. 
TOURMALINE. 
canseeyil the specimens placed before you are some very fine 
examples of tourmaline crystals, collected by Mr. Cleghorne of 
Uralla, which I obtained from him in June, 1883. In form, size, 
and appearance they closely resemble the large and well-developed 
black rhombohedral crystals, for which the locality of Bovey 
, in Devonshire, used to be so famous. 
Great credit is due to Mr. Cleghorne for the good service he has 
done to the knowledge of the mineralogy of New South Wales, by 
collecting and osc thitg these and many other minerals hitherto 
unknown in the Colon 
SCHEELITE. 
Scheelite te of lime occurs in massive lumps in 
association with es rae and molybdenum ochre at Hillgrove, 
county Sandon. 
