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dum crystals with a border of fibrolite and enclosed in mica- 
ceous schist, one new locality for tourmaline, one new locality for 
aqua marine, and in conjunction with Mr. W. E. Hidden, I dis- 
covered forty-one different minerals in a few ounces of Brindlet- 
town gold sands, being by far the largest and rarest number ever 
obtained at one time by an examination of these celebrated sands: 
Titanium. Zircon. 
Titanite. Thorium. 
Menaccanite vel Ilmenite. Graphite. 
Rutile. Corundum (white). 
Anatase vel Octahedrite. sf (blue). 
Octahedrite. - (red). 
Ilmenite. 0) (gray). 
Brookite. ay (yeliow). 
Iron. Feldspar 
Limonite. Albite. 
Mag. Iron. Actinolite. 
Granite. : ourmaline. 
neiss. chorl. 
Itacolumite. Epidote. 
uartz ery, 
Garnet. r Tremolite. 
Schist Hornblende 
Monazite. Soapstone. 
Amethyst. Kyanite. 
Gold. Cairngorm Stone. 
This paper, in conclusion, is merely to place on record the 
results of my three years’ field work amongst the minerals of 
North Carolina, until I can elaborate them (with engravings) in a 
substantial book form.— Yohn T. Humphreys, Greensboro, N.C. 
GroLocicaL News.—Prof. Hitchcock is preparing a new geo- 
logical map of the United States. Prof. Hall has identified the 
Oneonta and Montrose sandstones, and finds them to form a 
fresh-water deposit below the Chemung. Prof. Collett has 
found a remarkable deposit of extinct Unionidae in Vandenburg 
county, la. rof. Leidy has determined a number of species of 
Vertebrata from bones found in a cave in Northampton county, 
Pa. All of the species are existing excepting two, a Castoroides 
and a Peccary. Mojsisovics and Neumayr are publishing an 
extensive work, Beitrage zur Palaeontologie von Oesterreich-Un- 
garn. The two first monographs have appeared; they are Lug- 
mayer on Rhetic Brachiopoda, and Bittner on Early Tertiary 
Echinida of the Southern Alps. 
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVELS! 
THE EXPLORATIONS OF CAPELLO AND IvENS IN WeEsT CENTRAL 
Arrica.—In previous numbers of the NaTuRALIST some accounts 
have been given of the expedition fitted out early in 1877, by the 
Government of Portugal and the Lisbon Geographical Society for 
the exploration of western and southern Central Africa, The 
party was under the command of Major Serpa Pinto, and starte : 
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