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brown ironstone, galena, &c.;— mellite or honey- 
stone , which is said to be geognostically related 
to amber, but is a mellate of alumina.— Glau- 
herite (a compound of anhydrous sulphate of lime, 
and anhydrous sulphate of soda), imbedded in 
white and blue rock salt,&c.;— polyhalite ofStro- 
meyer, a chemical combination of several salts, 
formerly considered as anhydrous sulphate of 
lime. 
Case 28 . contains various saline minerals, 
among the more remarkable of which are the 
fibrous sulphate of magnesia and soda, from Ga¬ 
la tyiid in Arragon, and the blue salt with glau- 
berite, from Aranjuez in Spain. 
In the glazed table-cases and drawers on the 
right hand side of the principal entry from the 
first room into the Saloon, are deposited the Me¬ 
tallic ores. 
Case 29. The ores of platina, gold, and mer¬ 
cury.— Platina in grains from Peru and Brazil; 
the latter mixed with grains of greyish-yellow 
gold.— Palladium .— Iridium.—Native gold , sub¬ 
divided into pure and alloyed gold; the former 
chiefly massive and as grains (from Guinea, Ben¬ 
gal, Sumatra), and in brown iron-stone, in quartz, 
with needle ore (acicular sulphuret of bismuth, 
&c.) from Siberia; the alloyed gold (principally 
from Transylvania) crystallized in minute cubes 
and octahedrons variously aggregated, in reticu¬ 
lar plates, & c.—The ores of mercury in this case 
d °2 are: 
SALOON 
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