MINERALS FROM NEW CALEDONIA. 231 
NICKEL. 
M. Jules Garnier seems to have been thefirst to discoverthe exist- 
ence of a nickel-bearing mineral in New Caledonia: he first met with 
it as far back as 1864 and made his discovery public in 1867’, 
but he did not, apparently, make any investigation into the 
chemical composition of the mineral in question: afterwards M. 
Garnier placed some of the mineral in the hands of M. Jannettaz, 
mineralogist to the Natural History Museum of Paris. 
In a letter to the “Moniteur de la Nouvelle Calédonie” of 
in his letter. I did ‘not then give the descriptions, waiting for the 
definite work which I could only make in a place where I could be 
for investigation that I lacked in the Colony. It was Mons. 
annettaz, mineralogist at the Museum, who was so good as 
T again wrote :—“ The serpentines and in a general way 
of the rest, all the rocks which accompany them are often covered 
with a coating of beautiful green, which is nothing but silicate of 
nickel, alumina, and magnesia. * * * The nickel in at 
Condition is so abundant that we ought to hope to find one day @ 
Nothing sgt of it.” (Bulletin de Industrie Minérale, p. 301, 
me 
Since my previous analysis of the nickel-bearing minerals from 
: iy Nouv. Cal., p. 85, J. Garnier, 1867. 
5 Jour. Roy. Soc., N.S.W., vol. IX, p. 47. : isan ees 
A new nickel-bearing Mineral from New Caledonia. A. Liversidge. 
Quart. Jour. Chem. Soc., London, July, 1874, Nickel Minerals from New 
edonia, by A. Liversidge, Jour. Roy. Soc., N.S. W., 1874. 
