928 General Notes. 
Mineralogical Magazine a more valuable journal than it has been 
heretofore. Several of the articles in that journal have been more 
notable for quantity than quality. Like the other English socie- 
ties the Mineralogical Society has gravitated to London, although 
originally intended as a peripatetic society. Native lead has 
been observed in cavities in red carbonate of lead from Maulmain, 
Burma, India. It occurs in small masses associated with minute 
crystals of white cerussite. The bright red color of the cerussite 
containing the native lead is probably due to an intimate mixture 
of minium. _ A. Miers, of the British Museum, has meas- 
ured with a Fuess goniometer several crystals of the rare mineral 
meneghinite. It occurs in slender needles, and the end planes are 
very' small. The needles are deeply striated or chan 
making measurements difficult. A number of new faces were 
observed, and the crystals determined to be orthorhombic, with the 
axial lengths a: b : c = 1.89046: 1 . .68664. Associated with 
galena, and filling cavities in quartz, an interesting form of kaolin- 
ite occurs in Ouray county, Colorado. The mineral appears as 4 
mass of glistening white scales visible to the naked eye, and 
under the microscope show as perfect transparent crystals having 
well-defined pyramidal planes. Dr. M. E. Wadsworth has 
issued a descriptive catalogue of one hundred thin sections © 
American and foreign rocks for the use of students of microscopi- 
cal lithology. The collection consists of European rons de- 
one centimeter long. The inner stamens are the longest as 
the first to appear on the opening of the bud (Fig. 1). paer 
the outer or shorter pair of anthers develop and take a per” 
Fic, 1.-—Section of opening flower. Fic, 2.—Section of open fower, P ne 
The same, front view. Fic. 4.—Side view of flower with the stigma-10 Š 
close to the upper lip, the inner or longer stamens me (Fig: 
so that the filaments of the two sets cross each ot the corelh 
The inner stamens therefore are near the lower lip of 
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