. Birds and nature . LOANED BY FOOTE MINERAL CO. Almandite (Colorado.) Essonite (Italy.) Garnet in Matrix (Alaska.; in Matrix, polished (Mexico.) BY 4. W. , CHICAiO. Almandite (Connecticut.) Garnet (Hungary.) Uvarovite in Matrix (Canada.) fore the blowpipe, and the globules thusformed will be magnetic if the garnetcontains much iron. The green garnet,uvarovite, is almost infusible, is not much affected by ordinary-acids, although it may be somewhat de-composed by long heating. The name garnet is said by some au-thorities to come from the Latin wordgranatus,

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. Birds and nature . LOANED BY FOOTE MINERAL CO. Almandite (Colorado.) Essonite (Italy.) Garnet in Matrix (Alaska.; in Matrix, polished (Mexico.) BY 4. W. , CHICAiO. Almandite (Connecticut.) Garnet (Hungary.) Uvarovite in Matrix (Canada.) fore the blowpipe, and the globules thusformed will be magnetic if the garnetcontains much iron. The green garnet,uvarovite, is almost infusible, is not much affected by ordinary-acids, although it may be somewhat de-composed by long heating. The name garnet is said by some au-thorities to come from the Latin wordgranatus, meaning like a grain, and tohave arisen in allusion to the resemblanceof its crystals in color and size to theseeds of the pomegranate. The Germanword for garnet, granat, is the sameas the Latin word. Others think the wordderived from the Latin name of thecochineal insect in allusion to a similarityin color. The Lise of garnet for gem purposesseems to date back tO the earliest the ornaments adorning the

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