202 
Diamond (round boart), weight 41/* carats, 
extremely hard, shows a radiated structure if 
peculiar to Brazil. 
This variety is 
broken, and is 
c Cutan A d un 9 ut specimens of black diamond from Bahia, Bra- 
zil, South America. 
A collection of over fifty diamonds in their natural state, and 
a crystal in matrix from South Africa. 
Gem gravel containing ruby, sapphire, zircon, tourmaline 
quartz, etc., from a Ceylon river bed. 
A collection of fifteen rubies, from Ural mountains, North 
Carolina and Georgia. 
Cut and uncut specimens of various colored sapphires, found 
on the banks of the Missouri river sixteen miles from Helena 
Mont. 
Uncut specimens of sapphires from Ceylon, Siam, India, and 
Asiatic Russia. 
Richly colored chrysoberyls and alexandrite, from Ceylon and 
the Ural Mountains. 
Six star sapphires, from Ceylon, the largest of which weighs 
134 Karats. 
A ninety-nine and a sixty-six karat yellow sapphire (oriental 
topaz), a fifty-nine karat blue sapphire, also yellow, pink, white, 
and other colored sapphires. Spinel — fine red, blue and other 
colors. 
, 1 ^h e Chilton doubly-terminated emerald crystal in a matrix of 
black limestone, from U. S. Colombia. 
Emerald crystal six inches in length and about a half inch in 
diameter, remarkable for its length, from Alexander county, N. C. 
Case 3.— Blue topaz, smoky quartz of fine cutting and ex- 
quisite luster, albite, golden beryls, and orthoclase, from the Ural 
Mountains, also colored topazes of Asiatic Russia, Brazil, Cey- 
lon and Colorado. J 
The 352 karat Hope aquamarine and other fine examples of 
sea-green, sea-blue, yellow, and other colors of beryl. 
Beautiful beryls from Maine, Russia and Brazil, also strings of 
turquoise beads made by the Indians of Santo Domingo, N. M. 
Case 4.— An exceedingly fine collection of quartz and quartz 
cuttings, notably : — H 
i ^ ar £ e jewel casket composed of twenty-six engraved crystal 
s abs, mounted in jeweled and enameled silver ; style, seventeenth 
century ; original in Ambras Collection, Vienna. 
Screen, “The Finding of Moses,” engraved on a thin section 
ot rock crystal 9 3-5 inches in diameter, believed to be the largest 
section of its kind in existence. 
Tazza of quartz, engraved to represent a marine festival. 
Large crystal sphere, from the summit of Mt. Antero, Colo- 
rado, one of the largest crystal balls ever polished. 
