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(Case 15, and part of 16.) Continuation of 
amphibolic minerals. Only a few specimens of 
that widely diffused substance, the common horn - 
blende , could be deposited in this part of the 
collection.—Between this and the substance 
called diallagite , or diallage (in the adjoin¬ 
ing and opposite case, No. 16), are placed the 
hjpersthene of Haiiy ( Labrador hornblende of 
Werner) and the anthophyllite , a substance from 
Kongsberg in Norway, nearly allied to them.— 
The actinote or strahlstein (of which we have the 
common, glassy, and fibrous varieties) likewise 
passes into substances contained in the opposite 
glass-case, especially the amiantlioide from Oisans 
and the fibrous actinote, which is closely allied to 
some varieties of common asbest.—The tremolite 
(formerly grammatite of Haiiy, but now referred 
by this mineralogist to his amphiboie): among 
the specimens of this substance are, the fine fibrous 
variety, not unlike in appearance to some varieties 
of asbest in the opposite glass-case ; glassy tre¬ 
molite in dolomite and granular limestone (see 
the adjoining table-case. No. 21).—The rhceticite , 
a mineral, according to Werner, intermediate be¬ 
tween tremolite and kyanite. 
(Case 16.) Asbest and amianth , with other re¬ 
lated substances : among these may be observed 
specimens illustrative of the transition from a very 
close to a loose fibrous structure ; various speci¬ 
mens of the flexible asbest or amianth, with some 
antique 
