A popular guide to minerals : with chapters on the Bement Collection of minerals in the American Museum of Natural History, and the development of mineralogy . MONAZITE Amelia Court House, APATITE Burgess, Ontario, CanadaI>ement Collection, American Museum of Natural History BEMENT COLLECTION 28 Fine Manganite from Ilfeld Harz, one especially magnificentspecimen bought from Hoseus, are noticeable, and also the crystalssprinkling the surfaces, mammillated and stalactitic of gothite onlimonite from Negaunee Michigan, with others. Amongst the Limonite may be mentioned long iridescentpipe
A popular guide to minerals : with chapters on the Bement Collection of minerals in the American Museum of Natural History, and the development of mineralogy . MONAZITE Amelia Court House, APATITE Burgess, Ontario, CanadaI>ement Collection, American Museum of Natural History BEMENT COLLECTION 28 Fine Manganite from Ilfeld Harz, one especially magnificentspecimen bought from Hoseus, are noticeable, and also the crystalssprinkling the surfaces, mammillated and stalactitic of gothite onlimonite from Negaunee Michigan, with others. Amongst the Limonite may be mentioned long iridescentpipe stalactites on a crustlike floor from Rossbach; altered pyritefrom Elba and Pelican Point Utah, and pseudomorphs of enormoussize after Siderite from Catawba Co. N. Y. Brucite is an American mineral, at least the crystal groupsand chains, spheres, and plates from Brewsters N. Y. and Texas,Lancaster Co., Pa. are unrivalled. There are twenty seven brucitesin the Bement collection, and a few as 6095, 6108, 6109, 6110, areprobably unequalled. Species 73. Specimens 1931. THE CARBONATES. The Carbonates form a small section in the mineralogical seriesand lacking hardness and density fall behind
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