MOSCOW. 
patronage only in Moscow. “ In England, said 
he, “ it does not answer to offer fine specimens 
of Natural History for sale; we get more money, 
even for the minerals of Siberia, in Moscotv than 
in London .” We found a very practical illus- 
tration of his remark, in the contents of one 
small drawer, which was opened for us, con- 
sisting only of forty-three specimens, and which 
had cost the Count two thousand pounds 
sterling. The substances were certainly rare, 
but by no means adequate to such an enormous 
price. Some of them had been purchased in 
London, at the sale of Monsieur de Calonne's 
Cabinet. A fine mineral, as well as a fine 
picture, will often make the tour of Europe ; 
and may be seen in London, Paris, and Petersburg , 
in the course of the same year. 
Among the rarest of Count Golovkins minerals, 
were, a specimen of the black sulphuret of silvei , 
crystallized in cubes, for which alone he paid 
fifteen hundred roubles ; auriferous native silver ; 
the largest specimen which perhaps exists of 
the red Siberian tourmaline 8 ; galena, almost 
(2) Perhaps it is the same now exhibited in the Gardens of Natural 
History at Paris. Since this was written, 1 have seen a specimen 
much larger, in Mr. Granite’ s splendid Collection. It was a present 
from the King of Ava to Captain Symes, and is nearly as big as a 
