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TABLE 
1 . 
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTOR Y . 
EIGHTH ROOM. 
MINERALS. 
This room contains, besides the local collec¬ 
tions in the cases round the room, the valuable 
donation of Mr. Cracherode, disposed in two 
tables, nearly in the Linnsean order : and a much 
more extensive series, arranged according to Wer¬ 
ner’s system of mineralogy, in- 210 drawers in 
the imposts round the room. 
THE CRACHERODE AN COLLECTION. 
(Division \.) Various earths, belonging to the 
argillaceous, talcose, and calcareous genera : va¬ 
riegated clays, fullers’ earth, scum earth, &c. 
— Carbonats of lime : double refracting spar; 
variously modified crystallizations : nail-head spar, 
&c. rhomboidal sandstone spar from Fontain- 
bleau ; fibrous limestone: stalactites; kalksinter: 
peastone; the white and blue branched Flos 
ferri, &c.; arragonite ; brownspar. 
(Div. 2 .) The Tophus turbinatus, Linn. Wall e 
—several varieties of compact limestone (mar¬ 
bles) ; Cottam marble$ Stirian shell or luma- 
chella 
