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The most important addition to the collection at the Mineralogical Museum in a perfect iron meteorite from Colorado. It is very beautiful in shape and is a very rare specimen, weighing about one hundred and ten pounds.
A collection of many minerals, made by Dr Palache in Arizona, including specimens of banded onyx, is now on the way to the Museum.
A valuable Mexican collection, which is still uncatalogued, has been received recently by the Peabody Museum. It formed part of that collected by Prince Maximillian from the region of the City of Mexico and the State of Oaxaca, in Southern Mexico, and is valuable for its great age and the...
Beside this collection, an interesting set of articles of dress and about five hundred photographs have been brought from the highlands of Guatemala by Mr. Gordon of the Museum. In past years he has been engaged in excavations in the ruined cities of Guatemala, Quirigua and San Augustin, and Copan...
A very rich collection of photographs of Norwegian scenery, to the number of several hundred, bearing on the subject of geology, which was bought last spring with a fund given for that purpose has just been received.