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October of the same year. I discovered and worked on fifty-six 
different new localities yielding the same species before mentioned, 
with the addition of 
Black Tourmaline; Brown Tourmaline; Green Beryl; Melanite (garnets) in 
Muscovite ; Sagenite (meshed rutile); Acicular rutile; Rutile in amethyst. (This 
last named species I also claim as having first discovered in this country, if not in 
the world.) 
The result then of my field work in Catawba county, N. C., 
from the 4th day of June, 1877, to the 1st day of November, was 
the discovery of ninety-one new localities for minerals and the 
scientific determination of the following list of species obtained 
from these localities new to science: 
Quartz crystals, drusy; do, reniform; do, botryoidal; do, asteriated; do, acicu- 
lar; do, aventurine; do, filiform; do, reticulated; do, water-bearing ; do, carbon 
various hues; do, enclosing other crystals; do, enc 
sang); do, enclosing pyrites; do, enclosing small prisms of mica; do, enclosit 
rutile; do, (amethyst) enclosing acicular rutile; do, (amethyst) enclosing sagenite 
rutile. 
Many of these were twins, geniculations, double terminals and 
in groups—varying in colors from black (of various shades) to 
the most pellucid variety, including green, yellow (citrine) smoky, 
purple, milky and almost every tint known to chemistry. ar 
Crystallographically I have discovered in these new localities 
the following list of forms: 
Basal planes. Trigonal prisms. 
Hexagonal pyramids. Rhombohedrals. 
Dihexagonal “ Trapezohedrals. 
Trigonal as ao And hemimorphic forms. 
The weight of these separate crystals runs from one grain to 
one hundred pounds. 
There are two very singular groupings among these crystals ; 
the one being a number of amethyst crystals grouped upon a 
group of milky crystals, the other (resembling Fig. 335, p. 101, in ~ 
E. S. Dana’s Text Book of Mineralogy, Ed. 1877) being a series 
of quartz crystals all in a parallel position on the prism and 
pyramid faces of a group of acicular milky quartz crystals. 
I believe I have discovered in this belt more than two-thirds of 
the forms of quartz known to science. This, however, I will 
determine before the year closes. : 
On a group of thirteen smoky crystals, having unitedly fifty- 
two easily discernible and movable bubbles, and nine different 
basal planes, there is one crystal with a.basal plane and a cavity 
enclosing a gas, a liquid and a solid—the finest and most inter- 
esting specimen of its class which has ever been discovered. 
In the months of July and August of 1878 I discovered two 
new localities, in Burke county, for basal planes on quartz, three 
new localities for sagenite and the golden colored rutile, two new 
localities for liquid-bearing crystals, one new locality for corun- 
