SALOON. 
Nat. Hist. 
Case 22 , and part of'23. Various specimens 
of stalactical limestone, some varieties of which 
bear the name of alabaster in common with com¬ 
pact gypsum ; the peculiar variety called pea- 
stone, from the hot springs of Carlsbad in Bohe¬ 
mia, and the white variety found in the bed of a 
small river near Tivoli, and known by the name 
of confetti di Tivoli, —Calcareous tuf; to which 
are added some casts of medals, made at the 
baths of San-Felippe in Tuscany, where moulds 
of coins, gems, &c. are placed in convenient si¬ 
tuations to receive, the calcareous deposition.— 
Shell limestone, the most esteemed variety of 
which is that from Carinthia, called lumachella 
or fire marble (see Room I. table-case 5.); and 
some varieties of anthraconite, called also madre¬ 
pore stone, from a distant resemblance this sub¬ 
stance bears to some petrifactions of the order 
of corals; fetid limestone. See, 
Cases 23 and 24. These cases are occupied 
by suites of brown spar and of arragonite. 
Among the specimens of the former are many 
of the scarce fibrous varieties, which were for¬ 
merly referred to common fibrous limestone; 
among the latter are Werner’s columnar and 
acicular arragonite, as also fine specimens of the 
remarkable coralloid variety from Eisenertz in 
Styria, formerly calledyZo^ ferric 
Case 25 contains the f nates of lime. Among 
the numerous varieties of fluor spar may be par¬ 
ticularized the rose-coloured primitive crystals 
from 
