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eminent scientific men, which has prevented him from receiving 
many foreign honorary distinctions. There is, however, no one 
in or out of New Zealand who has done more for her scientific 
advancement and celebrity ; and the writer only echoes the wish 
which everyone who knows him must feel, that he may long con- 
tinue to make fresh additions to our knowledge, and to add fresh 
laurels to his fame as a colonial naturalist. 
Gol ag 
[The accompanying excellent photographic likeness ot 
Professor Hutton was taken by Messrs. E. Wheeler and Sons, of 
Christchurch, and printed by the Autotype Co. of London.—Ed. | 
NOTES ON SOME MINERAL OCCURRENCES AT 
DUSKY» SOUND, WEST, . COAST ~ OF -Mipiar 
ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND. 
—_—_. > 
For several years past Mr. W. Docherty has with indomitable 
pluck and perseverance carried on a mineral exploration of the 
ranges bounding Dusky Sound, and of neighbouring parts of the 
wild romantic West Coast of the Middle Island. The chief and 
legitimate incentive for this dangerous work, in which he is still 
engaged, is the occurrence of mineral deposits carrying copper 
pyrites impregnated and in veinlets ; pyrrholite and pyrite more 
massively and abundantly developed ; and also a number of 
favourable gangue-minerals, as feldspar, hornblende, garnet, &c. 
—the mineral association as a whole presenting close analogy to 
those of certain rich copper-ore deposits of several European and 
American mining countries (Sweden, Norway, the Banat, 
Roumania, Tennessee, Virginia, &c.) Having been invited by 
him each time he returned from one of his exploration trips to 
inspect the specimens he collected, I had the gratification to 
identify several mineral species not before noticed as occurring 
in New Zealand,* and in other well-known species I observed 
characters rendering these minerals deserving of further 
examination. 
The main object of this paper is to give the results of ex- 
aminations, both of the newly-recognised and the before-known 
species referred to; but as the mode of occurrence of these 
minerals, as well as the geological and mining features of the 
district which Mr. Docherty prospects, are highly interesting and 
instructive, it may be permitted to preface the purely mineral- 
ogical part by the following notes, gathered from that gentle- 
man’s descriptions. 
* I take as my principal guide in this respect the elaborate paper by Mr. S. 
Herbert Cox, F.C.S., F.G.8., ‘‘ Notes on the mineralogy of New Zealand,” published 
in Transactions N, Z. Institute, Vol. XIV., 1881, p. 409-418, and Vol. XV., 1882, 
Pp. 301-409, 
