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ROOM VIII. 
Nat. Hist. 
TABLE 
1 . 
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
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EIGHTH ROOM. 
MINERALS- 
This room contains, besides the local collec¬ 
tions in the cases round the room, the valuable 
donation of Mr. Cracherode, disposed in two 
tables, nearly in the Linnaean order ; and a much 
more extensive series arranged according to Wer¬ 
ner’s system of mineralogy, in 210 drawers in 
the imposts round the room. 
THE CRACHERODEAN COLLECTION. 
(Division 1.) Various earths belongingto the 
argillaceous, talcose, and calcareous genera : va¬ 
riegated clays, fullers earth, scum earth, &o. 
—Carbonats of lime : double refracting spar ; 
variously modified crystallisations : nailhead spar, 
&c. rhomboidal sandstone spar from Fontaine¬ 
bleau ; fibrous limestone : stalactites ; kalksinter: 
the white and blue branched Flos ferri; peastone, 
&c.; arragonite ; brownspar. 
(Div. 2.) The Tophus turbinatus Linn. Wall. 
—several varieties of compact limestone (mar¬ 
bles) : Cottam marble ; Stirian shell or lumachella 
marble; 
