74 NATURAL HISTORY. [NORTH 
other gigantic species of the class, which have been discovered at 
Buenos Ayres, and in the province of Minas Geraes, Brazil. The 
casts of the bones of the Megatherium are from specimens found in 
the bed of the Rio Salado, near Buenos Ayres : these and other casts 
are marked with asterisks. 
At the west end of the Room is the fossil human skeleton, embedded 
in limestone, brought from Guadaloupe, by Admiral the Hon. Sir 
Alexander Cochrane, and presented to the British Museum by the 
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. 
C. KONIG. 
Feh. 7, 1845. 
ALPHABETICAL LIST 
OF THE 
MINERALS IN THE NORTH GALLERY, 
WITH REFERENCES TO THE TABLE CASES. 
Abrazite, 29. 
Acanticone, 35. 
Aclimite, 34. 
Acid, arsenious, 53. 
•— boracic, 41. 
V— molybdic, 40. 
- silicic, 20, 24. 
Actinolite, 33. 
Adularia, 29. 
jEschymte, 37. 
Agalmatolite, 26. 
Agates, 23. 
Agate-jasper, 24. 
Alabaster, 46. 57. 
Alalite, 34. 
Albine, 27. 
Albite, 30. 
Allanite, 38. 
Allochroite, .36. 
Allophane, 26. 
Almandine, 6. 
Alum, 55. 
Alumina, 19. 
- fluoride, 59. 
- - mellate, 60. 
- phosphate, 57. 
- silicate, 26. 
- sulphate, 55. 
Alumiuite, 55. 
Alumocalcits, 24. 
Alum-stone, 55. 
Amalgam, native, 2 
Amazon-stone, 29. 
Amber, 60. 
Amblygonite, 54. 
Amethyst, 20. 
- - oriental, 19. 
Amianth, 34. 
Ammonium chlo¬ 
ride. 59. 
Amphibole, 33. 
Amphigene, 30 
Analcime, 27. 
Anatase, 37. 
Andalusite, 26. 
Andreolite, 29. 
Anglesite, 55. 
Anhydrite, .54. 
Anorthite, 30. 
Anthophyllite, 33. 
Anthracite, 4. 
Anthraconite, 46. 
Antimoniates, 40. 
Antimony-blende, 
38. 
- grey, 10. 
- native, 3. 
- ochre, 38. 
- oxysulphuret, 
38. 
- plumose, 10. 
- red, 38. 
- sulphuret, 10. 
- white, 38. 
Apatite, 57 B. 
Aphrite, 45. 
Apophyllite, 27. 
Arendalite, 35. 
Arfvedsonite, 33. v 
Arragonite, 42. 
Arsenic, native, 4, 
- with cobalt, 4. 
- oxide, 53. 
- sulphurets, 11. 
Arsenic bloom, 56. 
Arsenic pyrites, 12. 
Arsenious acid, 56. 
Arsen iurets, 4. 
Asbest, 34. 
Asparagus-stone, 
57 B 
Asphalt, 60. 
Astraphyalite, 21. 
Atacamite, 59. 
A vanturino-quartz, 
22 . 
- feldspar, 29. 
Augite, 34. 
Automolite, 19. 
Axinite, 40. 
Azurite, 57. 
Babingtonite, 34. 
Baikaiite, 34. 
Bardiglio, 54. 
Baroselenite, 52. 
Baryta, carbonate, 
41. 
- sulphate, 52. 
Barv'tes, 55. 
Barytocalcite, 41. 
Baudisserite, 49. 
Bergbutter, 55. 
Bergmannite, 31. 
Berthierite, 11. 
Beryl. 37. 
Berzelite, 60. 
Beudantite, 18. 
Bildstein, 32. 
Bismuth, 1. 
- carbonate, 50. 
- glance, 9. 
- native, 1. 
- oxide, 17 . 
Bismuth blende, 
26 . 
Bitumen, 62. 
Black-lead, 4. 
Blende, 5. 
Blood-stone, 23. 
Blue-spar, 57. 
Bog-iron ore, 16. 
Bolognese-spar, 52. 
Boracic-acid, 38. 
Boracite, 39. 
Borax, 39. 
Botryogene, 55. 
Botryolite. 39. 
Boulangerite, 11. 
Bourndnite, 11. 
Brand-erz, 9. 
Braunite, 13. 
Breunerite, 49. 
Brewsterite, 28. 
Brochantite, 55. 
Brome-silver, 59. 
Bronzite, 25. 
Brookite, 37. 
Brown-coal, 62. 
Bro\vn-spar, 48. 
Brucite, 39. 
Bucholzite, 26. 
Bucklandite, 36. 
Buntkupfer, 7 . 
Bustamite, 34. 
Calaite, 57. 
Calamine, 49. 
- electric, 26. 
Calcareous-spar, 43 
—45. 
Calcedony, 22, 23. 
Calcite, 43—47. 
Calcium, fluoride, 
58. 
Caledonite, 55. 
Camelian, 23. 
Catlinite, 26. 
Cat’s-eye, 22. 
Celestihe, 53. 
Cererite, 26. 
Cerine, 37. 
Cerite, 26. 
Cerium, carbonate, 
50. 
-fluoride, 59. 
-silicate, 26. 
Ceylonite, 19. 
Chabasite, 27. 
Chalcolite, 57- 
Chalcosiderite, 57. 
Chalcotrichite, I 7 . 
Chalk, 48. 
Chiastolite, 48. 
Childrenite, 57. 
Chlorides, 59. 
Chlorite, 32. 
Chloropal, 26. 
Chloropha?ite, 26. 
Chondrodite, 58. 
Chrome-garnet, 36. 
Chrome-iron, 39. 
Chromium, oxide* 
■IB 
Chrysoberyl, 19. 
Chrysocoll'a, 26. 
Chrysolite, 25. 
Chrysoprase, 23. 
Cinnabar, 9. 
Cinnamon-stone,35. 
Clay-iron-stone, 16. 
Cleavelandite, 30. 
Coal, 62. 
Cobalt, arseniate, 56. 
-grey, 4. 
-oxides, 17 . 
-sulphate, 58. 
sulphuret, 6. 
