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Case 40 is set apart for such silicates as contain one or more borates, 
of which, however, in some cases, it is uncertain how far these may be 
considered as essential component parts.—To this order belong the 
species tourmaline and axinite. Among the red-coloured varieties 
of the former, some of which are called rubellite, the most remark¬ 
able deposited here is a specimen of uncommon form and dimensions, 
which was presented by the king of Ava to the late Colonel Symes, 
when on an embassy to that country; blue varieties of the same, some 
of them known by the name of indicolite; a suite of modifications of 
tourmaline crystals of those colours, as well as of others, such as green 
of various shades, among which, those from Brazil, Elba, and from 
Campolongo deserve more particular notice. Of the axinite , Wer¬ 
ner’s Thumerstein, very characteristic specimens from Bourg d’Oisans, 
Norway, &c., will be found in this Table Case. 
Case 41. In this Case begins the order of the Carbonates— Carbonate 
of soda, from various localities. — Carbonate of baryta or witherite, among 
the specimens of which may be particularized the beautiful groups of 
double six-sided pyramids, and those of six-sided prismatic crystals. 
—Barytocalcite , from Alston Moor in Cumberland. — Carbonate of 
strontia, called strontianite , chiefly from Strontian in Argyleshire, in 
prismatic and acicular crystals, which latter have sometimes been mis¬ 
taken for arragonite. The remaining part of this Case is occupied by 
such specimens of the mineral species called arragonite as have partly 
been found to contain a few per cent, of carbonate of strontia: they 
are, however, essentially carbonates of lime, though of a different crystal 
system. Among the more interesting of the regular forms here deposited 
are the loose and variously grouped simple and hemitrope crystals from 
Arragon, and from Kosel, Bohemia, &c., and the fine acicularly 
crystallized varieties, in brown iron stone, from Ilefeld, in volcanic 
ejections of Vesuvius, &c. : they are continued in 
Case 42, in which are also placed several very perfect specimens of 
the coralloidal variety of arragonite from Eisenertz in Stiria, for¬ 
merly called Jlosferri, &c. : to the massive varieties of this species some 
of the calcareous deposits of Carlsbad in Bohemia may be referred. 
The remainder of the Case contains several striking varieties of 
common carbonate of lime or calcite, some of which have been mis¬ 
taken for arragonite. 
Cases 43 and 44. The crystallized varieties of carbonate of lime con¬ 
tinued. Among the specimens placed in the first of these Table Cases may 
be specified those illustrative of double refraction, cleavage, supernumerary 
joints, colour, &c.; likewise the various secondary obtuse and acute rhom- 
bohedrons; among the former of which the most common, but not the least 
striking, is the inverse variety of Haiiy, so called from its being as it 
were an inversion of the primitive rhombohedron of calcareous spar; 
and the same with a considerable admixture of quartz, commonly called 
crystallized sandstone of Fontainbleau, &c.; also many interesting and 
beautiful specimens, from the Hartz, Derbyshire, &c., of prismatic and 
pyramidal modifications of the same substance. 
Case 45. Besides additional chiefly prismatic modifications of crys¬ 
tallized calcite, this Table Case contains several belonging to the sta- 
laciic and fibrous varieties of that substance, the most characteristic 
of which latter are those from Cumberland and Sweden, with pearly 
