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Fine examples of cut crystal from Asiatic Russia; seal having 
a Turkish inscription on one end and a Russian on the opposite, a 
head of a horse and a bust of Ivan Tourgeneff. 
A cut crystal, from Mexico, the finest specimen of aboriginal 
work of this kind ever found in that country. 
Case 5. — A very complete series of garnets, rough and pol- 
ished, rose, hyacinth, orange and red; also richly-hued polished 
zircons. 
Tourmalines of many colors, from Brazil and Maine. 
Fine specimen of phenacite from Ural Mountains and Colo- 
rado. 
Zircon (dark golden smoke color), round, brilliant; weight, 
41 ^ karats; Kandy, Ceylon. Also one weighing 46 % karats, from 
Kandy, Ceylon, and a collection of zircons of various colors. 
Rubellites from Brazil, weighing 21 karats. 
Green garnets, Ural cutting, cushion-shaped. 
Precious garnets; Navajo Nations, New Mexico; Bohemia; 
and Kimberley, South Africa. 
Rare specimens of peridot from Levant. 
Rare specimens of almandite. 
Essonites from Maine and Ceylon. 
Jadeite, (green), Burmah. Wells Collection. 
Spodumene, yellow, Minas Geraes, Brazil. 
Carbuncles, Siriam Pegu, India. 
Case 6. — Rock crystals from Madagascar, Brazil, and Ural 
Mountains. A beautiful collection of the doubly-terminated quartz 
crystals, loose and in the matrix, from Herkimer County, New 
York, commonly known as Little Falls diamonds. 
Cats-eyes. 
Thirteen cut and two uncut specimens of rose quartz 
from near Albany, Oxford County, Maine. 
Case 7. — The peculiar “face” and “owl” agates of Paraguay, 
South America, grotesquely cut to resemble owls and human faces. 
Agate section. Natural color, transparent, from Uruguay. 
Wood opal from Colorado. 
Opal in matrix, from Queensland, Australia. 
Flexible sandstone from North Carolina. 
Crown worn by the Duke of Sussex at the coronation of Her 
Majesty Queen Victoria. 
Smoky quartz. Pike’s Peak, Colorado. 
Case 8. — Cut amethysts believed to be the finest collection 
in existence. 
Spanish topazes, a fine series. In the “ Spanish topaz” the 
original coloring of the carbon in the smoky quartz has been 
changed by the action of heat to the rich hues so much admired. 
Cut and uncut smoky quartz from Colorado, Ural Mountains 
and Switzerland. 
