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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
Carbonate of Lime from the Jura, nearest the Alps, showing fossils and cracks resulting from desiccation.
Carbonate of Lime with Iron Pyrites crystallized on Quartz.
Carbonate of Lime with Sulphides of Lead and Iron on Quartz.
Carbonate of Lime in large and small Crystals with sulphide of lead.
Carbonate of Lime in hexagonal plates.
Carbonate of Lime in small acicular and large twinned crystals, on Galena.
Carbonate of Lime in modified plates.
Carbonate of Lime in acicular and radiating columnar crystals.
Carbonate of Lime in acicular and radiating columnar crystals.
Carbonate of Lime in acicular and radiating columnar crystals.
Fluor spar in cubes beautifully modified on the angles.
Fluor spar in beautifully modified cubes.
Fluor spar, angle fractured, planes beautifully composed of low pyramids with inlaid Quartz.
Fluor spar on Quartz, two cubes curiously combined.
Blue Fluor spar on Quartz, truncate on the angles.
Blue Fluor spar on Quartz, cubes purple in the interior.
Fluor spar and Iron Pyrites on Quartz, cubes purple in the interior and beautifully modified on the angles.
Fluor spar, octahedric, transmuting itself into Chert.
Fluor spar much modified, its substance entirely replaced by Chert.
Large Agate formed in Basaltic rock, and containing crystals of Carbonate of Lime.
Agate showing involutions, natural colour.
Agate showing involutions and tubular centres, natural colour.
Agate showing large involutions, coloured.
Agate, coloured.
Amethyst, with coating of chalcedony on one side.
Chalcedony, becoming agatescent.
Chalcedony assuming Agate form.
Agate in its most complex manner of concretion.
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