il 
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
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 Linnaean 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 C RAC HE ROBE AN COLLECTION. 
(Division 1.) 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 ; brown spar. 
(Div. 2.) The Tophus turbinatus, Linn. Wall. 
-—several varieties of compact limestone (mar¬ 
bles) : Cottam marble; Stirian shell or luma- 
chella 
) 
ROOM VII 
Nat. Hist. 
table 
1 . 
