GALLERY.] NATURAL HISTORY. (Minerals.) - j 
brownish-black varieties ; the colophonite, bearincr a distant m o,.,l i 
to ros.n, from Norway and North America ; the ^12' o7w5 u IT 
net, a fine light-green species from Kamsehatka/so called from the fin 
ced resemblance which ts separate crystals bear to a oooXrrv • Z 
allochroite , also called splintery garnet, from Norwnv • tT - ’ . 
the (hessonitefo r ciilmon-'sto™ 
was supposed to contain zirconia, till a more accurate an.1^1 ■ 
to be nearly allied to vesuvian and garnet (most of the hyadnthsofconi' 
merce are cinnamon-stone). In this Case are also deposifed-t bVI/,7 
Re, from the Monzom in Tyrol, to which species the melilite from 7 Capo 
di Bove, near Rome, is referred by some mineralogists the cordi 
ente, also known by the names of pelioma, iolite, and dichroite 
massive and crystallized, from Capo di Gate, from Greenland Boden 
Sl Sf thrT" 1 r, Fm l a "r ( Steinheilite ) > — the sordawn. 
me irom 1 nland,-the staurolite, a bisilicate of alumina and of oxide 
of non, called also grenatite and cross-stone, among the specimens of 
which may be specified the fine mackled crystals from Brittanv Td the 
iTrism! Cat f 01 l S t °L - the SIm ? le f ySta ' S fr0m St ‘ G °lhard, accompanied by 
prisms of disthene, perfectly similar to those of the staurolite and 
frZS^af&c ygr ° Wn t0ge ‘ her Wi ‘ h them ^ the ^halite 
Case 37. One half of this Table Case is set apart for the silicates 
containing glucina and alumina, the principal species of which is the 
beryl, including the emerald, a gem which owes its beautiful green 
cdour to oxide of chromium : the most remarkable specimef s of 
emerald aie those from Santa Fe, from the Ural, from Heubacht.hal 
in Bavaria, and from Mount Zahara in Egypt amono- those of the 
beryl or aquamarine, may be specified the fine blue and fellow varieties 
fiom Mursmsk in the Ural, the colourless limpid crystals^ and those half 
NerXntk^XeW*’-^ f W t hlte “S 1 , °P af l ue > Odontchelong near 
Nerchinsk,— the bluish and greenish opaque bervls from Acworth in 
New Hampshire, where massy crystals have been found (the two im- 
perfect prisms placed on the shelf near this Table Case weigh, the one 
eighty-three, the other nearly forty-three pounds) the euclase a 
rare mineral discovered by Dombey in Peru, but since only found 
as loose ciystals, at Capao, near Villancca, in Brazil, and in the chlo- 
Ikfol!w e tp f l! ha f te ™ tor y »— the pbenacite or phenakite of Norden- 
- o.d, (which, if really a bisilicate of glucine, should be referred to the 
silicates with one base in Table 26,) occurs, together with emerald, in 
the Ural, and in brown iron-stone at Framont in Alsace;— the helvine 
from Schwarzenberg, considered as a triple silicate of glucina, iron 
and manganese.— Sihcates containing yttria and protoxide 8 of cerium * ; 
to these belong the gadolmite, the allanite or cerine, the orthite and 
pyroi thite, as likewise the tshefkimte of Rose. The rest of this Table 
^f wbiel. L C ]‘ P ‘ ed b l! the °*, lde ? f tltaniuma «d the titanates, to the former 
, , e 9 n o the rutile, also called titan-shorl, massive and crystai- 
lzed, the reticulated variety, generally with golden tarnish, from Mou- 
tier, near the Mon t Blanc ;— the capillary rutile in rock crystal from Bra- 
hp’i'it er - v 'J from the East Indies, &c. ; — the anatase (oisanite or octa- 
hednte), which occurs only crystallized, chiefly at Bourg d'Oisans.in 
Dauphmy. Among the titanates the more remarkable are— the silico- 
* These are at present placed in the next Table Case. 
