ARAGONITE. 
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485 to 489. Varieties of Mar¬ 
ble. 
Derhysliire. 
(A large collection of British marbles 
is displayed in the hall.) 
490. Ewer and Stand, of Rose¬ 
wood Marble. 
Ashford, near BakeweU, Derby¬ 
shire. 
491. Black Marble Cup on 
stem. 
Ashfurd, near BakeweU, Derby¬ 
shire. 
492. Sienna Marble Cup on 
stem, with octagonal base of Black 
Marble. 
(Nos. 490 to 492 placed in the case 
beneath.) 
493. Inlaid Marble Slab, 
♦copied from the Florentine “pie- 
tra dura.” 
Manufactured by Thomas Woodruff, 
BakeweU, and presented by Francis 
Barker. 
Nos. 494 to 497. A series illus¬ 
trating the Derbyshire and Flo¬ 
rentine processes of inlaying 
Marble, manufactured by Sam¬ 
uel Birley, Ashford ; and pre¬ 
sented, from the International 
Exhibition, 1862, by Francis 
Barker. 
494. The Design to be inlaid. 
495. Stem, Leaves, Buds, and 
Stigmata prepared for insertion in 
the spaces left unfilled in Nos. 
496 and 497. 
496. Marble Slab, partially 
inlaid, illustrating the Florentine 
method. Pieces of coloured mar¬ 
ble, &c. are accurately fitted into 
corresponding apertures cut in a 
thin piece of black marble, which, 
when so filled in, is cemented to a 
slab of marble or slate. 
497. Marble Slab, partially 
inlaid, illustrating the Derbyshire 
method. The pieces of marble, 
&c. are here cemented into boles 
sunk to the required depth in a 
solid slab of marble, and the sur¬ 
face afterwards polished. 
498. Black Marble Plate, 
with inlaid wreath of flowers. 
498a. Large Black Marble 
Plate, with geometric design 
inlaid with coloured marbles, ma¬ 
lachite, fluor-spar, barytes, &c. 
(Nos. 498 and 498a placed in the case 
beneath.) 
499. White Marble Tray, in¬ 
laid with floral ornament. 
Manufactured at Rajpootanah, 
Western India, 
From the Paris Exhibition, 1855. 
500. Large Pearl, attached to 
the valve of a Pearl Oyster. 
501 and 502. Vala'es of the 
Chinese Pearl Mussel, with images 
of Buddha, produced by the 
Chinese by introducing casts of 
the figure between the mantle and 
the shell of the living animal, 
which, irritated by the presence 
of these foreign bodies, graduallj^ 
covers them Avith a nacreous de¬ 
posit. 
503 and 504. Aragonite, or 
Arragonite, a prismatic species of 
Carbonate of Lime. 
Cleator Moor, Cumberland. 
505. Aragonite, crystallized 
in the spar-iron “ rider ” of a Lead 
Vein. 
Aldstone Moor, Cumberland. 
506. Aragonite, on Calamine. 
Wanlock Head, Dumfriesshire. 
507. Aragonite, crystallized 
on Specular Iron Ore. 
Cocaes Mine, Brazil. 
Presented by William Reay. 
508. Aragonite, crystallized 
on Argillaceous Gypsum. 
Aragon, Spain. 
509. Aragonite, crystallized 
in compound forms. 
Herrengrund, Hungary. 
510. Aragonite. 
Occurring in the Chalk at Barnet 
Wood, near Lady Holt Bark, 
Idsworth, Hants. 
Presented by Sir J. C. JerA'oise, Bart., 
M.P., 1864. 
