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 . leo, Lower Californiadeserve mention, they are hollow faced octahedrons with d 4583 is a group of cubes elongated and regular, covered withmalachite on a cupriferous limonite gangue. The Chalcotrichitecomes from Tennessee Michigan, Arizona and Germany. A blue-gray octahedral Periclase in an ejected nodular limestonefrom Monte Somma, Italy follows. There are eleven Zincite specimens, with the exception oftwo artificial specime


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 . leo, Lower Californiadeserve mention, they are hollow faced octahedrons with d 4583 is a group of cubes elongated and regular, covered withmalachite on a cupriferous limonite gangue. The Chalcotrichitecomes from Tennessee Michigan, Arizona and Germany. A blue-gray octahedral Periclase in an ejected nodular limestonefrom Monte Somma, Italy follows. There are eleven Zincite specimens, with the exception oftwo artificial specimens, all from Sussex Co., New Jersey. These,one suspects, have been carefully selected and of course the crys-tallized examples are very precious. There is a zincite enclosed incalcite, in long cylindrical stringers, one bag-shaped mass with pe-cuHar pressed surfaces. There are four crystallized specimens, ofthese the largest possesses six well-defined crystals, one of consid-erable size, implanted on a mixture of franklinite and zincite. The Tenorite is from Vesuvius, Michigan, and Arizona; twohandsome specimens of Paramelaconite, one showing tetragonal. TITANITE (Twinned) Renfrew Co., Canada Bement Collection, American Museum of Natural History


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