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acicular Alumina amygdaloid analcime Analyses antimony arsenic acid Austell barytes Beudant bismuth blowpipe borax Botallack Brittle Brooke and Miller brown calcite Camborne carbonate cavities chabasite charcoal Cleavage coal cobalt colour colourless conchoidal Cornwall crystalline crystals Cumberland decomposed Devonshire earthy edges felspar fibrous flame fluor form of figure formula Fracture conchoidal Fracture uneven fuses galena granite granular green grey Gwennap Haidinger Hausmann Hauy Heddle Hill Huel hydrochloric acid intumescence Ireland Isle Kobell Leadhills lime LOCALITIES.-England locality Lustre vitreous Magnesia manganese masses massive matrass mineral mines Naumann oblique occurs opaque oxide oxide of copper oxide of lead parallel pearly perfect Peroxide of iron Phillips potash Primary form Prismatic Protoxide of iron pseudomorphous pyrites quartz Rammelsberg Redruth resinous Rhombohedral right rhombic prism rocks silica silver Skye soda soluble sometimes species specimens Streak white Strontian sulphuric acid Tavistock Thomson translucent transparent twinned variety Wheal Wicklow yellow
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Page 485 - Eggs in this edition are from different specimens to those figured in the previous editions. Systematic Catalogue of the Eggs of British Birds, arranged with a View to supersede the use of Labels for Eggs. By the Rev. SC MALAN, MA, MAS On writing-paper. 8vo, 8s. 6d.
Page 485 - Natural History of the Sperm Whale, and a Sketch of a South Sea Whaling Voyage. By THOMAS BEALE.