1280 General Notes. [December, 
men all over the world. In 1877 he described under the name of 
rogersite a mineral resulting from the alteration of samarski 
In the same year Daubrée, of Paris, named after him the mineral 
Lawrencite, a protochloride of iron first detected by Dr. Smith in 
meteorites. Dr, Smith has published in book form a collection 
of his memoirs of especial interest to mineralogists. He was one 
of the few American members of the Academy of Sciences of 
aris——-At the American exhibition recently held in Boston, 
several States exhibited collections of minerals. North Carolina 
was especially well represented, making a large exhibit of beauti- 
ful and often rare species. Among the most noteworthy minerals 
were the following: Gummite in a mass weighing six and a half 
pounds; wraninite in masses of several pounds weight; crystals 
of monazite, fergusonite and xenotime ; large masses of allamite 
and samarskite, one specimen of the latter weighing five pounds; 
crystals of emerald over five inches long; brilliant prisms and 
geniculations of rutile; quartz showing basal and other rare 
planes ; beautiful crystals of spodumene, beryl, etc. ——The ny 
mineral %örnesite, a hydrous arseniate of magnesia, has probably 
been identified by M. E. Bertrand accompanying nagyagite from 
Nagyag, Trannsylvania. ‘The crystals of hornesite are of a pale 
rose color, have a talcose cleavage and are quite soft.—_— C! al 
ing to the newspapers, “Missouri is said to have a new np the 
adamscolite, that cuts steel.” ——What was probably one o a 
richest finds of gold ever made in this country at one time, W 
discovered recently in Amador county, Cal., according to a Ps 
published there, which says a pocket of quartz, found less a 
100 feet below the surface, and containing about es yen Am 
quantity, yielded from $75,000 to $100,000. . en ake 
quartz, it is represented, consisted of what were virtually kren 
of gold——Tin ore is reported to occur in Ro k ee 
Virginia. A vein of cassiterite, several inches in thic se ee 
nearly east and west through a gneiss containing large YS" 1 
feldspar with mica and quartz. : 
BOTANY.’ 
A ‘new Species or Insecr-pestrovinc Fungus (see 
Nar., Vol. xv, p. ewe 
Entomopthora calopteni, n. sp——I. Empusa pe = pressure — 
II. Tarichium stage: Odspores globular, or from fy. 
somewhat irregular in outline, colorless, 36 to 39” ee often 
walls thick (4.), colorless, smooth ; protoplasm ae ‘ound 
as if composed of many small cells, often with a args © ster 
vacuole, nat ek ee 
Occurring as a clay-colored mass in the body ay Cot, 1885 : 
ora of Caloptenus differentialis, Ames. lowa, ae rst Report 
This is much like the species described by tec ar z 
1 Edited by Pror. C, E, Bessey, Ames, Iowa. 
