The specimen to be described was found in 1925 by Miss H. K. Cargill and Miss J. A. Ledeboer on a scree slope beneath a gully in the basaltic capping of the Slaufrudal granite-granophyre stock at Kvosafoss, SE. Iceland. Unfortunately the rock was not discovered in situ, but it must belong to the upper part of the stock or a dike apophysis of it. An examination of the rock was begun by Miss Ledeboer, but she was unable to continue the work; I am indebted to her for the photographs of pl. VII, figs. 1 and 2.

The phonolites which are found in the volcanic region of Dunedin, New Zealand, are of a varied character. Some of them are of ordinary types, but others are nephelinitoid, and some of them have sodalite in abundance. Besides the phonolites, there are trachydolerites, some of which also contain sodalite as well as nepheline. There is also an abundance of tinguaites, in all of which nepheline is distinct and sometimes sodalite as well. All petrologists who have worked in this region are therefore perfectly familiar with the minerals sodalite and nepheline in many different associations and conditions.

In the Autumn of 1928 Dr. Béla Fülöpp and Mr. G. Kupás sent for examination an unknown mineral, which had been found in no. III level on the main lode of the Kereszthegy mine at Nagybánya, comitat Szatmár [now Baia Mare, Satul-Mare, Romania]. The small crystals show a close resemblance to those of plagionite from Wolfsberg in the Harz Mountains, but the results of our detailed examination prove that we have here a new mineral. For this we propose the name Fülöppite in honour of Dr. B. Fülöpp, an enthusiastic collector of minerals and a generous patron of the Magyar Nemzeti Mfizeum (Hungarian National Museum).

The discovery of tin-ore in Ankole (south-western Uganda) led to a great deal of prospecting on the part of qualified and unqualified, experienced and inexperienced, individuals, not only in the vicinity of the original discoveries, but also in many other parts of the Protectorate. One of the results of this activity was the finding, by a prospector, of a deposit of alleged coal at a spot rather less than 25 miles WNW. (approx.) of Kampala and about 35 miles NW. of Entebbe. With reference to this, the discoverer was told by the Geological Survey that his hoped-for fuel was in reality tourmaline, but inasmuch as it was associated with a pinkish-buff mica characteristic of the stanniferous pegmatites of Ankole, further search might disclose the presence of tinstone.

A specimen of hardystonite from Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, U.S.A., purchased in 1899 from Mr. W. M. Foote of Philadelphia for the British Museum collection consists largely of an associated pale pink mineral which has at various times been thought to be rhodonite, fowlerite, wollastonite, or scapolite. This specimen has recently again attracted attention because of the remarkable fluorescent effects it shows in ultra-violet rays. The pink mineral displays a bright brick-red fluorescence, the hardystonite a violet; and some willemite present fluoresces a brilliant green. A description in the literature of such a mineral from Franklin Furnace being unknown to Dr. L. J. Spencer, he handed over to me the problem for investigation, and a detailed examination has proved the pink mineral to be bustamite.