NATURAL HISTORY.

ONE of the Meteoric Stones which fell at Benares, in the East Indies, Dec. 19, 1798. Presented by the late William Marsden, Esq.

A PIECE of crystallized Native Iron, from an unknown locality. Presented by Henry Heuland, Esq.

A SPECIMEN of Native Steel, from Auvergne.

A RICH specimen of arborescent Native Silver, under a glass shade, from Kongsberg, in Norway. Presented by Henry Heuland, Esq. FIVE large and rich specimens of Silver Ore, from the Mina Grande, in the Cerro de Pasco, Peru. Presented by Señor Don Manuel de Ujura y Sanchez.

NATIVE Silver, in transparent Carbonate of Lead, from Guanaxuato, Mexico.

THE same, in Pistacite, from Kongsberg, Norway.

THE same, in a crystal of Sulphate of Lime, from Santa Rosa mine, Mexico.

NIVIFORM Native Silver, with Carbonate of Lead, on Copper Glance, from Semenofsky mine, Kolywan, Siberia.

THE same, on red Oxide of Copper, from Barnaul, Siberia.
NATIVE Silver, in Arsenical Cobalt, from St. Felix, Chili.

FILIGREE-SHAPED Amalgam, on Cinnabar, with Lithomarge, from Stahlberg, Palatinate.

FOLIATED Native Gold, on Quartz, from Zell, Zillerthal, Tyrol.
DENDRITIC Native Gold, on Quartz, from Caité, Brasil.

NATIVE Gold, in variegated Copper Ore, from Olonetz, Russia Proper.
THE same, on Iron Glance, from Congo Soco, Brasil.

THE same, in ferruginous Quartz, mixed with Chlorite, from Congo Soco, Brasil.

THE same, disseminated in Quartz, from Eula, Bohemia.

THE same, from La Gardette, Dauphiné.

THE same, with acicular triple Sulphuret of Bismuth, from Beresof mine, Siberia.

NATIVE Tellurium, minutely crystallized, from Offenbanya, Transylvania.

NATIVE Antimony, on Quartz, in Hornstone, from Carlsfiord, near Sahla, Sweden.

SELENIURET of Lead, from Tilkerode, Hartz.

COBALTIFEROUS Seleniuret of Lead, from Clausthal, Hartz.

MERCURIFEROUS Seleniuret of Lead, from Tilckerode, Hartz.

A CRYSTALLIZED Diamond, being a macle of a peculiar form, from
Brasil. Presented by the Right Hon. Sir Edward Thornton.

A LAMINA (weighing 4 karat) of a large Diamond, from Brasil.

A LARGE specimen of iridescent Anthracite, from the United States.
Presented by Ingram, Esq., of New York.

GROUP of bronze-coloured Sulphuret of Iron, with lenticular Carbonate
of Iron, from Traversella, Piedmont.

A SINGLE Crystal (var. quadriépointée) of Iron Pyrites, from Brozzo,
Piedmont.

WHITE Iron Pyrites, in modified obtuse octahedrons, with crystallized
Carbonate of Lime, &c., from Brownly Hill, near Alston, Cumber-
land.

A GROUP of hemitrope Copper Pyrites, on Quartz, from Cornwall.
A CRYSTAL of pseudomorphous Galena, from Freiberg, Saxony.

A CRYSTAL of Galena, on Prehnite, with Koupholite and Amianthoide,
from Bourg d'Oisans, Dauphiné.

CRYSTALLIZED Galena, (var. triforme,) with Carbonate of Iron, and Rock
Crystals, from Clausthal, Hartz.

SLAGGY Cupro-ferriferous Sulphuret of Silver, from Sombrerete, Mexico.
SULPHURET of Antimony, with Blende and Salite, from Sala, Sweden.
AMORPHOUS cupriferous Sulphuret of Antimony, from Baigory, France.
ACICULARLY diverging Grey Antimony, with milk-white crystallized Sul-
phate of Baryta, from Schemnitz, Hungary.

TRANSPARENT Light-red Silver Ore, on Native Arsenic, from Joachims-
thal, Bohemia.

DENDRITIC Dark-red Silver Ore, from the mine Abendröthe, Andreasberg,
Hartz.

TETRAHEDRAL Grey Copper Ore, tarnished, on Carbonate of Iron, from
Moschel-Landsberg, Palatinate.

CRYSTALLIZED Arsenical Iron, from the Old Elizabeth mine, Freiberg.
ANOTHER variety of Arsenical Iron, locality unknown.

ARGENTIFEROUS Arsenical Iron, from the Stockwerk, Freiberg, Saxony.
A SPECIMEN of brown spongy Wad, (earthy Hydrous Oxide of Manga-
nese,) from the Ural Mountains, Siberia.

DENDRITIC Wad, from Ilmenau, Thuringia.

VACILLARY earth, Hydroxide of Manganese, from Siegen.

ANOTHER variety of the same, from Schurde, Thuringia.

LAMINAR Iron Glance, with green Talc, from Minas Geraes, Brasil.

ANOTHER variety of the same, from the same locality.

A GROUP of lenticularly crystallized Iron Glance, on a quartzy rock stone, from Dauphiné.

METASTATIC pseudomorphous Oxide of Iron, from Sundwig, Westphalia.

ANOTHER variety of the same, from the same place.

DODECAHEDRAL Magnetic Iron Ore, from Ivikaet, Greenland.

STRIATED dodecahedral Magnetic Iron Ore, from Traversella, Pied

mont.

OCTAHEDRAL Magnetic Iron, in Micaceous Iron Glance, from Minas Geraes, Brasil.

BROWN Hematite, (Hydrous Oxide of Iron,) from Antonio Pereira, Brasil.

DODECAHEDRAL Oxide of Copper, coated by Blue Carbonate of Copper, with Fibrous Malachite, from Chessy.

BLACK Earthy Cobalt, from Salfeld, Thuringia.

OXIDE of Tin, in a chloritic rock, from Pitkeranda, Finland.

HEMITROPE Oxide of Tin, with Phosphate of Lime, and white Topazes, from Ehrenfriedersdorf, Saxony.

THE same, with Fluor Spar and Rock Crystal, from Schlackenwalde, Bohemia.

THE same, with white Topazes and Rock Crystal, from Ehrenfriedersdorf, Saxony.

A SMALL piece of Wood Tin, from Mexico.

RED Corundum, with Amphibole, from Salem, East Indies.

A SLENDER, graver-shaped Rock Crystal, from Dauphiné.

A GROUP of Amethyst crystals, on a portion of a geode of Calcedony, from Bombay.

A GROUP of brown Rock Crystals, traversed by slender crystals of Topaz, from Odonchelong, Siberia.

WRITE Siliceous Sand, from Sydney, (and a salt-cellar; of glass, made from the same by Messrs. Pellatt and Green); with two varieties of white Sandstone, from the same country. Presented by Samuel King, Esq.

FETID Quartz, (à odeur des truffes,) from Monte Viale, Vicenza.
A SINGLE crystal of Haytorite, from Haytor, Devonshire.

SMALL specimen of Noble Opal, in its matrix, from Czchervenitza,
Hungary.

A LARGE specimen of crystallized Serpentine, from Snarum, Norway. UNDULATED Serpentine, in Limestone, from Sahla, Sweden. CRYSTALLIZED Steatite, from Middlefield, Massachusetts, N. America. CRYSTALLIZED and botryoidal Steatite, from Göpfersgrün, Voigtland. A SPECIMEN of Keffekillite, from Perm, Siberia.

A CRYSTAL of Zircon, in Basalt, from Laach on the Rhine.

CRYSTALLIZED Stilbite, on Gneiss, from Kniebeis, near Gastein, Tyrol. GLASSY botryoidal Stilbite, from the Seiser Alpe, Tyrol.

TRANSPARENT glassy Analcime, from Catania, Sicily.

FLESH-COLOURED trapezoidal Analcime, covered with minute crystals of Quartz, from Montzoni, Tyrol.

BREWSTERITE, on a group of Rock Crystal, from St. Christophe, Dauphiné.

PEARLY broad-foliated Okenite, from Tupaursak, North Greenland.

Two hemitrope crystals of Feldspar, from Elba and from Baveno. AMORPHOUS green Feldspar, coloured by oxide of Chrome, from Aosta, Piedmont.

ADULARIA, with Pericline, and some Sphene, from St. Gothard.

RED Labradorite, from Helsingfors, Finland.

VARIETY of Albite, (called Zuckerstein,) with globular Carbonate of Iron, from Schellgaden, Tyrol.

CRYSTALLIZED Andalusite, from the Lisenz Alp, Tyrol.

NUTTALITE, from Bolton, Massachusetts.

ROSE-COLOURED Latrobite, with green granular Phosphate of Lime, from Akudlek, North Greenland.

HEXAGONAL Mica, with Serpentine, partly indeterminably crystallized, from Snarum, Norway.

SILVERY Talc, with Iron Glance, on Quartz, from Minas Geraes, Brasil. CRYSTALLIZED leek-green Talc, from St. Gothard.

SILVERY undulated Talc Slate, with Iron Glance, and granular Topaz, from Minas Geraes, Brasil.

REDDISH-YELLOW acicular Amphibole, from Kariæt, South Greenland. ASBEST, with fibres aggregated into striated groups, from Rolzberg, Tyrol.

GRANULAR Idocrase, resembling Colophonite, in laminar Limestone, from Arendahl, Norway.

CRYSTALLIZED Diopside, from Ala, Piedmont.

OIL-GREEN transparent Idocrase, from the same place.

AN insulated crystal of Epidote, from Chamounix, Switzerland.

BLACK Augite, crystallized, in Dolerite, from the Kayserstuhl, Suabia. BABINGTONITE, with glassy Apophyllite, and crystallized Carbonate of Lime, from Arendahl, Norway.

BUCKLANDITE, in Trachite, from Laach on the Rhine.

CRYSTALLIZED Somervillite, from Vesuvius.

COMMON Garnet, embedded in Albite, &c., from Brodbo, Sweden.

GRANULAR light-red Garnets, in Werner's Weiss-stein, from Ameraglik, South Greenland.

CRYSTALLIZED Helvine, from Bruder Lorenz mine, Schwarzenberg, Saxony.

SEVERAL fragments of crystallized Emerald, &c., from Egypt. Presented by J. G. Wilkinson, Esq.

A CRYSTAL of Beryl, traversed by a cylindrical crystal of black Tourmaline, from Miask, Siberia.

PRISMATIC six-sided crystal of Beryl, the central part filled up by Albite, with splintery Pyrope, from Chesterfield, N. America.

CRYSTAL of the same, embedded in Carbonate of Iron, from Odonchelong, Siberia.

Two crystals of the same, on a group of Topazes variously modified, from Odonchelong, Siberia.

A GREEN transparent crystal of Tourmaline, with perfect summit, from

Minas Geraes, Brasil.

COLUMNAR black Tourmaline, in Quartz, from the Pyrenees.

THE same, from Johan-Georgenstadt, Saxony.

BACILLARY Rubellite, with Quartz, from Elba.

LEPIDOLITE with Rubellite, and Rubellite with Meerschaum, both from Perm, Siberia.

A YELLOW Topaz, embedded in a Rock Crystal, coated by Hydrous Oxide of Iron, from the Capitania of Olinda, Brasil.

A HEMITROPIC yellow Topaz crystal, from Olinda, Brasil.

A CRYSTAL of Pyrophysalite, on Albite, from Finho, Sweden.
BACILLARY Pycnite, from Brodbroe mine, Fossum, Norway.
PYCNITE, with Molybdena, from Numedahl, Norway.
CYLINDRICAL Titanite, of high lustre, from Minas Geraes.

A LARGE crystal of the same, with Asparagus-stone and Anthophyllite, from Snarum, Norway.

ANATASE, on a group of Rock Crystals, from Cocais, Brasil.

NIGRINE, on Feldspar, in Hornblende Slate, from the Lisenz Alp, Tyrol. TITANIFEROUS Iron Glance, crystallized, from Friedricksvarn, Norway. MASSIVE Gabbronite, with titaniferous Iron Glance, from Nodebroe mine, Norway.

BROOKITE, in a piece of Rock Crystal, polished, from Snowden, South Wales.

A SPECIMEN of massive and crystallized Wolfram, from Odonchelong, Siberia.

FASCICULAR radiated Carbonate of Baryta, from Kleopinsky, Nerchinsky, Siberia.

A GROUP of crystallized Arragonite, (var. l'apotome,) from Framont, Vosges.

RED diverging-radiated Arragonite, in cells of a basaltic rock, from Au

vergne.

ACUTE rhomboidal Carbonate of Lime, with black Rock Crystals, &c., from Hessekulla, Sweden.

Two crystallized varieties of the same, in bituminous Limestone, from Frankenberg, Hessia.

MARL, with traces of imperfect crystallization, from Limburg.

APPLE-GREEN botryoidal Carbonate of Zinc, from Moldawa, Bannat. ANOTHER variety of the same, from the same place.

APPLE-GREEN cupriferous Carbonate of Zinc, from Chessy, near Lyons. CRYSTALLIZED Carbonate of Lead, the crystals traversing transparent Sulphate of Lime, from Nertschinsky, Siberia.

TRIHEXAHEDRAL variety of the same, from Kleopinsky, Nerchinsky, Siberia.

BLUE Carbonate of Copper, in large crystals, partly coated by fibrous Malachite, from Chessy, France.