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with brown iron-stone, galena, &c.;— mellite or 
honey-stone^ which is said to be geognostically 
related to amber, but is a mellate of alumina.— 
Glanberite (a compound of anhydrous sulphate 
of lime, and anhydrous sulphate of soda), im¬ 
bedded in white and blue rock salt, &c.— poly- 
halite of Stromeyer, 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 Ca- 
latyud 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 
Metallic 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 aggre¬ 
gated, in reticular plates, &c.—-The ores of 
mercury in this case are:—the sulphurets, con- 
D 2 sisting 
SALOON. 
Nat. Hist. 
