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A group of crystal balls mounted on a stand of metallic 
leaves, the whole representing fruit and foliage. 
A quartz crystal, scratched so as to show the method of slicing 
quartz in the manufacture of spectacle lenses. 
A series of fourteen specimens of crystal intended to show the 
various steps in the cutting of a brilliant. 
Fine examples of cut crystal from Asiatic Russia; seal having 
a Turkish inscription on one end and a Russian on the oppo- 
site * a frame of the seventeenth century ; chandelier pendant, 
eighteenth century, French cutting ; 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 £>. — Zircons of various colors. A dark golden smoke 
color, round brilliant, weight 41% karats, Kandy, Ceylon. Also 
one weighing 46^ karats from same place. 
Tourmalines of many colors, from Brazil and Maine. 
Fine specimens of phenacite from Ural Mountains and Colo- 
Rubellites from Brazil, weighing 21 karats. 
Green garnets, Ural cutting, cushion-shaped. 
Precious garnets: Navajo Nations, New Mexico; Bohemia, 
and Kimberly, South Africa. 
Rare specimens of peridot from Levant. 
Rare specimens of almandite. 
Essonites from Maine and Ceylon. 
Spodumene, yellow, Minas-Geraes, Brazil. 
Carbuncles, Siriam Pegu, India. 
Spessartites from Virginia. 
Case 0, — Rock crystals from Madagascar, Brazil, and Lral 
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, quartz, and polished, from Bavaria, North Caro- 
lina, and Ceylon. . r w 
Thirteen cut and two uncut specimens of rose quartz trom 
near Albany, Oxford county, Maine , 
Three polished specimens of plasma from Openau, Baden, 
Germany. 
Case 7 .— Agate section. 
Uruguay, South America. 
Wood opal from Colorado. 
Opal in matrix, from Queensland, Australia 
Flexible sandstone from North Carolina. 
Natural color, transparent, from 
Geode from Uruguay. 
Polished specimens of banded jasper from Russia. 
Agates of Uruguay, South America, grotesquely cut to resem- 
ble owls and human faces. 
