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DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
EIGHTH ROOM. 
minerals. 
This room contains, besides the miscellaneous room viii 
specimens in the cases round the room, the Nat. Hist. 
Cracberodean collection, disposed in two tables, 
nearly in the Linnaean order: and a much more 
extensive series, arranged according to Werner's 
system of mineralogy, in 2!0 drawers in the 
imposts round the room. The whole of them 
will form part of the great collection now under 
arrangement in the Saloon. 
THE CRACHERODEAN COLLECTION. 
( Division 1.) Various earths, belonging to the 
argillaceous, talcose, and calcareous genera : va¬ 
riegated clays, fullers’ earth. Sic. —Carbonats of 
lime ; double refracting spar , variously modi¬ 
fied crystallizations: nail-head spar; &c. rhom- 
boidal sandstone from Fontainbleau; fibrous 
limestone: stalactites; kalk-sinter; peastone ; the 
white and blue branched Flos ferri, &c. ; ar- 
ragonite ; brownspar. 
(Rk. 2.) The Tophus turbinatus, Linn. Wall. 
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