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Note on a large crystal of Anatase from the Binnenthal1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

G. F. Herbert Smith*
Affiliation:
Mineral Department of the British Museum

Extract

Last year (1911) the Trustees of the British Museum acquired a large isolated crystal of anatase, which is of interest not only on account of its unusual size, but also because of the vicissitudes that, to judge from the furrowed appearance of certain faces, it had undergone in the course of growth. It was by far the largest of the many crystals of this species that were found in the previous year (1910) near the ridge Kollergraben in the district known to early mineralogists as Alp Lercheltini, probably at a spot named Spissen.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1912

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Footnotes

1

Communicated by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.

References

Page 290 note 2 Registered number 1911, 182.

Page 290 note 3 Compare L. Desbuissons, ‘Contribution à l'étude des minéraux de la vallée de Binn. 2° Anatase do Spisaen.’ Bull. Soc. franç. Min., 1911, vol. xxxiv, pp. 245-251. The number, though bearing date November, 1911, was not received at the Museum till February 8, 1912.

Page 290 note 4 Fig. 2, loc. cit.

Page 290 note 5 Seligmann, G., ‘Anatas von der kip Lercheltini im Binnenthal.’ Zeits. Kryat. Min., 1886, vol. xi, pp. 337348 Google Scholar, plate V, fig. 8.

Page 290 note 6 Solly, R. H., ‘On various minerals (Anatase, &c.) from the Binnenthal’. Mineralogical Magazine, 1904, vol. xiv, p. 16 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.