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Some new minerals from the Binnenthal, Switzerland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

R. H. Solly
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A preliminary notice of this new mineral, named in honour of Dr. Arthur Hutchinson, Demonstrator of Mineralogy in the University of Cambridge, was read before the Cambridge Philosophical Society in October, 1903. The material was first found, in the white crystalline dolomite of the Lengenbach quarry, during my visit to the Binnenthal in the summer of 1903. More material was received in November of the same year, and a further supply was obtained in 1904.

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Research Article
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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 14 , Issue 64 , May 1905 , pp. 72 - 82
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1905

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Page 72 note 1 Proc. Cambridge Phil. Soc., 1904, vol. xii, p. 277. The new mineral is there briefly described, but without name.

Page 72 note 2 Leaving England in December, 1903 for an indefinite period, I handed over the whole of this material, together with the other red minerals–smithite and trechmannite–to the British Museum for the investigation to be completed. A fuller account, by Mr. G. T. Frier and Mr. G. F. Herbert Smith, of these new minerals will therefore appear in a subsequent number of this magazine.

Page 73 note 1 Quite recently, Mr. G. T. Prior has found hutchinsonite to be a sulpharsenite of thallium, lead, silver, and copper : the presence of nearly 20 per cent. of thallium is of especial interest (‘Nature,’ April 6, 1905, vol. lxxi, p. 534).

Page 75 note 1 Since the above was written an analysis of smithite has been made by Mr. G. T. Prior, the results of which lead to the formula AgAsS2.

Page 79 note 1 See Hutchinson, Min. Mag., 1908, vol. xiii, p. 842.

Page 80 note 1 A note on lengenbachite, marrite, and bowmanite was read at the Cambridge meeting of the British Association in August, 1904, and these names were first published in ‘Nature’ on December 1, 1904 (vol. lxxi, p. 118).

Amongst a series of Binnenthal minerals exhibited at a meeting of the Vienna Mineralogical Society on November 7, 1904, were specimens of a new and undescribed species to which the name jentschite was applied. So far as can be judged from the brief description of the exhibits, as reported in Tschermak's Mitteilungen (1904, vol. xxiii, p. 551), jentschite would appear to be identical with the mineral described above under the name lengenbachite. In the same place brief mention is also made of some new minerals under the names hutchinsonite and trechmannite.

Page 80 note 2 Not (100), as stated in ‘Nature,’ 1904, vol. lxxi, p. 118.

Page 81 note 1 Crystals of blende with metallic lustre have been described by Professor Miers, Min. Mag., 1899, vol. xii, p. 111.

Page 81 note 2 Min. petr. Mitt. (Tschermak), 1883, vol. v, p. 507.

Page 82 note 1 Cf. Min. Mag., 1903, vol. xiii, p. 336.