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Collection of rocks very carefully trimmed
and material excellent, Specimens all about
4x6 inches in thick walled paper trays.
About 100 specimens.
About 75 specimens of stoneware and
porcelain clays. Both in the natural state
and sometimes in the marked or bisque state.
About 15 different finishes.
About 60 specimens of whet-stones each
tone nicely mounted and about 2x1x6 inches.
Collection of fossils small but good. Begins
with Carboniferous. About 70 specimen in systematic series
and 15 large specimens. One very fine Pachy-
docus naumanni, very large Bellulphus [illegible],
from the Carboniferous. A good tooth of Elephas primi-genius,
another Stegodon cliftii. The plants
are all good of Mesozoic age as Jamitphyllum
Nilssonia, and Chladophyletis.