72 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 
Cats-eye quartz from Bavaria, North Carolina, and Ceylon. 
Thirteen cut and two uncut specimens of rose quartz from 
Albany, Oxford county, Maine. 
Three polished specimens of plasma from Openau, Baden, 
Germany. 
Case 7. — Agate sections. Natural color, transparent, from 
Uruguay, South America. 
Wood opal from Colorado. 
Opal in matrix, from Queensland, Australia. 
Amethyst geodes from Uruguay. 
Agates of Uruguay, grotesquely cut to resemble owls and 
human faces. 
Case 8. — Opals in the natural state, also engraved and 
polished, from Russia, Queensland, Mexico, and the State of 
Washington, also the famous Sun God opal from the Hope 
collection, which is said to have been known in a Persian tem- 
ple for three centuries. Opalized bone and shells from Australia. 
Honduras opal. 
Fine specimens of tiger-eye, jasper, mocha stones, moss 
agates, sardonyx, chrysoprase, agates, and chalcedony. 
The finest specimen of hydrolite known (the bubble of sym- 
metrical shape being two and one-half inches in diameter) to- 
gether with numerous beautiful and rare specimens of agate and 
chalcedony, cut and uncut, from many parts of the world. 
Case 9. — Cut amethysts from Brazil, France, Ireland, Cey- 
lon, Hungary, and Russia; believed to be the finest collection in 
existence. 
Uncut amethysts from Mexico, North Carolina, and Russia. 
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 North Carolina, Colorado, 
Ural mountains, and Switzerland. 
Case 10. — Sections of a boulder of jade from the western 
coast of Australia; jadeite from Burma. 
Fluorite from Derbyshire and Cumberland, England, xDne 
group being encrusted with calcite crystals. Antique carvings 
of lion’s feet in marble, from Rome, Italy. 
Porphyry from Finland and Egypt. 
Thulite from Norway. Landscape marble from England. 
Brilliant slab of labradorite. 
