DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY 69 
Carbuncles, Sirian, Pegu, Burma. 
Spessartites from Virginia. 
Case 6. — Rock crystal from Madagascar, Brazil, and Ural 
Mountains. A beautiful collection of the doubly-terminated 
quartz crystals, loose and in the matrix, commonly known as 
Little I'alls diamonds, from Herkimer county, New York. 
Gold-bearing quartz from California, crystallized gold from 
Colorado, gold nuggets from placer mines, Kittitas county, 
Washington, large gold nugget from the Klondike. 
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 pol- 
ished, 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 Aus- 
tralia. 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. 
Thirteen cut and two uncut specimens of rose quartz from 
Albany, Oxford county, Maine. 
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. 
