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crystallized tiemannite, Marysvale, Utah; quartz crystals contain- 

 ing inclusions, phantoms, etc., Placerville, California; precious opal, 

 Washington; precious sapphires, including crystals and rolled pebbles, 

 Montana; minium, Leadville and Eureka, Utah; rhodochrosite in 

 large and transparent crystals. Alma, Colorado; crystallized cerus- 

 site, Utah and Idaho; crystallized azurite in large and varied forms, 

 Arizona; hiddenite in crystals of gem quality, Alexander County, 

 North Carolina; rose beryl, Dugway Range, Utah; crystallized 

 phenacite. Crystal Peak, Bear Creek and Mount Antero, Colorado; 

 topaz crystals in great variety from the Thomas Mountains, Utah; 

 probably the largest perfect crystal of topaz ever found in the United 

 States, Cheyenne Mountain, Utah; large crystal of andalusite, 

 Oreville, South Dakota; crystallized blue calamine, Elkhofn, Mon- 

 tana; bixbyite, Dugway Range, Utah; olivenite in great variety, 

 Eureka, Utah; scorodite in remarkable perfection of form from the 

 same locality; an extraordinary crystal of vivianite from Silver 

 City, Idaho; coni-chalcite in large masses of rich color, Tintic Dis- 

 trict, Utah; crystallized uraninite, Portland, Connecticut; anglesite 

 in crystals of remarkable perfection and size. Eureka, Utah; crys- 

 tallized leadhillite, Shultz, Arizona; an extraordinary crystal of 

 linarite on matrix. Eureka, Utah; crystallized wulfenite of rich and 

 varied colors, Shultz, Arizona; napalite, Aetna mine, California; 

 pseudomorphs of hematite after enargite, Copperopolis mine, Utah; 

 and malachite pseudomorphous after selenite, Mammoth, Utah. 

 The collection numbers 2,400 specimens and adds to the Museum 

 collections 75 species or varieties which had not been before rep- 

 resented. From the Director of the Geological Survey of Japan a 

 series numbering 34 specimens of new or unusual minerals of that 

 country was obtained by purchase. These specimens include beauti- 

 ful danburites from Obira, hyalite from Tateyama, twin quartzes 

 from Otomezaka, and choice topazes from the well-known Takayama 

 locality. In a series of specimens purchased from the estate of the 

 late George Wilkinson of Beloit, some remarkable manganites from 

 the well-known Negaunee, Michigan, locality were obtained. These 

 include a geode and two specimens of the " nailhead " variety, t 

 An extraordinary crystal of hematite, a fossil fish from the Green 

 River beds and a disarticulated fossil nautilus were other important ^ 

 specimens obtained in this purchase. Twelve specimens of the large, I 

 violet-colored calcites recently discovered at the May Bell mine near 

 Joplin, Missouri, were obtained from an exhibitor at the Louisiana 

 Purchase Exposition by purchase. The South Bend meteorite, re- 



