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Oct. 26: letter and list of his geological collection for sale



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Gems & half gems 160, Gypsum Family 50, Halite 20, Calcite 140, Arragonite 20, Fluorite 100, Baryte or heavy spar 40, Clays 25, Sulphur 8 Carbons 25

Contains about 2500 varieties, a Auxilliary Collection for illustrating Structure of minerals Chrystallography and physical properties and for Blopipe experiments

Lithological collection

Collection of rocks

Granite Rocks

Porphyritic "

Hornblende "

Dioritic "

Schistose metamorphic micaceous

Gabbro or Euphotide rocks

Augitic rocks

Sepentine "

Trachytic "

[Quartzore?]

Calcareous

Gypsum

Dolomitic

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Lithological Collection

Salt rock

Iron rocks

Coals [?]

Fragmented rocks

Conlomerates or Puddings

Breccias, Sandstones, Molasse[?]

[--Congl--] Argillaceous rocks

Plastic clays

Argillaceous slates

Shales [?]

Gangue rocks

A series of rocks arranged to illustrate the structures

Mineralogical & Lithological collection will amount to about 3000 specimens

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Geological Synopsis of Collection

Geological divisions represented in the Collection arranged according to Danas Manual of Geology

... I Archaean Time

Laurentian Period

Huronian Period

represented by crystalline & metamorphic & other rocks

... II Palaeozoic Time

I Silurian Age

... a lower Silurian

Primordial or Cambrian Period

Potsdam & Canadian Epoch

Trenton Epoch

Utica & Cincinnati Epochs or Hudson river Group

... b upper Silurian [--Epoch--]

Medina Epoch

Clinton "

Niagara "

lower Helderberg Ep.

Oriskany Ep.

European Silurian

represented by 800 species & varieties

... Devonian Age

Corniferous Period

Hamilton "

Chemung "

European Devonian

about 250 [insert: - 300] species & varieties

... Carboniferous Age

[dub?sub?]carboniferous Period

Kinderhook, Burlington, Waverley, Keokuk, St Louis Chester, European

... Carboniferous Period

Millstone grit

Coal measures

... Permian Period

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... Mesozoic Time

Triassic Period

new red sandstone grès [big ??]

Muschelkalk / calcaire coquillier

Keuper / marnes irisées

St Cassian or alpine Trias

... Jurassic Period

English

... Lias

lower (Sinemurian d'Orbigny)

middle (Liasian)

Upper (Toarcian)

... Oolyte

... Lower Oolite / brown Jura / Germany

inferior Oolite / Bajocien

Fullers earth

Great Oolite Bathonien

Callovian

... Middle Oolite / white Jura Germany

Oxford clay Oxfordien

Spongiferous limestone

Coralrag / Corallien

... Upper Oolite

Lithographic or Solenhopen [group?]

Kimmeridgien

Portland Oolyte

Purbeck beds

Wealden

... Cretaceous Period

... Lower Cretaceous

Neocomien France

Urgonian "

Aptien "

... lower Greens and England

... Middle Cretaceous

Gault England

Albian France

Cenomanian " upper greensand

lower Quadersandstone

" Plaener limestone

... Upper Cretaceous

{ Lower or gray Chalk Engl.

{ Turonian France

Hippurite limestone

upper Plaener

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... upper Cretaceous

white Chalk, Senomian France, Ober Quader, Gosau beds

Danian (Maistricht beds)

American Cretaceous

Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Kansas

... Cenozoic Time

... Tertiary Age

Alabama Period / Eocene

Claiborne - Jackson - Vicksburgh

[grouped?]

... Eocene Europe

Parisian basin - Nummulitic group

... Miocene & Pliocene

Fahlunien, Molasse marine & fresh water, Basin of Vienna

... Quaternary Age

Glacial Epoch - Post pliocene

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... Archaeological

Mound builders [or?] Stone Age

Collection of stone implements & other indian relics found in indian mounds; although some reach [insert: to] our historical time. Many belong to the prehistoric [--and--] or Quarternary or age of man. This is a very large and valuable collection for a museum.

... Lithological Collection

carefully selected specimens of rocks for illustrating lectures and studying Lithology

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