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Azores and Commenfs. 



FROOKITE IX CLEVELAND. 



In the ' Mineralogical Mag^azine,' just issued. Mr. C. R. 

 Lindsey contributes a * Note on the Occurre^ice of Krookiie 

 in the Cleveland Ironstone.' Tr.e mineral \va> J> sjox crca whilst 

 searching- tor anatase. A pound of ore from the Main Seam at 

 Upleatham Mines was treated by the usual processes of solution, 

 washmg- by decantation, and separation by heavy s-olution. 



Crystals of Brookite isolated from the CIe\'eland Ironstone (^magnifiedl. 



Amo::^'--: :':e :-e>:.-;;e o':^i.i-::cd were -e:^:e e:-}>;..S ef -v-eo'^iie 

 in the :o sr. own ::: ine accoir.pa::}-:::^:- :l'us:ra::or., icind'.y lent 

 b\- the e.'e.:c:- o: rr.e ' Mir.e:\i'.Oi: -r-- Me^c^'izii^^e.' An example of 

 the now worived-ou: : . . e. e of Rosedale, in Yorkshire, 



was examined, bu: }-ie-^.e^i no Bivoiciie. 



anXtLO-ixdlax pigmies.* 



Pig-m".e< being' 'in the air." so to speak, at ihie present time, 

 it is ner.^.n^- on^}- nn:o:\.' ::ni: tiie Rev. R. A. ^-..'.:\- >hould have 

 wri::en an.o:r.er paper dealing- with his * pigm\- liinis " — tins time 

 in ' Cnambers" Journal,' under the title of 'The Home of the 

 Pig-mies." Had the title been * Th.e Hon^e of the Pigmy-flints' 

 we might possibly have expected to have found the usual refer- 

 ence to the small flints found at Scunthorpe and the \'indhya 

 Hilis. AA'ir'n the title given, however, we naturally hoped that 



■~ See also ' The Xjiiuralist," Augusr 1Q03, p. jSo. 



