The Worcester spy., 1899-04-14
A VALUABLE DONATION.
Gilman Collection Of Min
erals For Natural His
tory Society.

The John Gilman collection of MN
erals has been presented to the Wor-
cester Natural History society by Hon
Stephen Salisbury.
These minerals were collected or a
good portion of them, by Mr.. Gilman Of
this city in various parts of the coun-
try. Many are specimens of gold sill
yer and copper ore from Idaho and Col
orado, and several are valuable speci-
mems of ore from mines owned by Mr.
Gilman.
There are any number of fossils from
the Mississippi valley states, with
liberal sprinkling of iron ore specimens
from the same locality and copper
from the Lake Superior regions. The
minerals of Vermont. New Hampshire,
Massachusetts and other states are also
to be found in this collection.
In the two cases which were partially
arranged yesterday, there are about 45O
specimens, with some duplicates. There
are perhaps a dozen more of these cases
TO be arranged and minerals classit1ed'
Here is list of specimens that Mr.
Gilman gave to a Spy man yesterday;
CSRPCA VI u 4hlSlllSd dllJ hleiyGASSs 49,
per; black mica, garnets, Fitchburg;
chastolite, Sterling; pink granite; stea-
tite. Athol; spodumene, Sterling; clay,
Gay Head, Mass; chalcopyrite; native
copper, Lake Superior; fossil, Iowa;
tourmaline Warren; quartz, Missouri;
garnets and quartz Warwick; rose
quartz, California; fossils, Iowa; mag
netite. New Hampshire; muscOVite,
Royalston; fossils, Missouri; magnetic,
ALL
muscoVlte, Minnesota; flesh colored
tieldspar, Royalston; wad; mica and
quartz, Royalston, Mass; cuprite; ia
vor1tes alviolaris, Aurelius, N. Y;
quartz crystal, Hot Springs, Ark; pet
relied wood, Austin. Tex. mica schist,
Pittsburg; specimens from Gave of
the Winds" Virginia Falls; bog iron
ores Templeton; malachite "copper",
Idaho limonite; bog iron ore, Hub
oardston; biotite; apatite; flint, Savan-
nah. Ga; analcite, Nova Scotia; lido
erase. Maine; fossils; chaIcopyrite
sandstone; cinnamon garnet, Warwick;
barite; clay ironstone; sandstone; lava,
VesuVius; calcareous tufa; tale, Athol;
coquina, Florida; fibrous gypsum,
Marcellus. Ill.,; mari; chalcedOny
Idaho; agate; fossil earth; gran
ite, Fitzwilliam, n. H; lime
stone; mica, Hubbardston; Hud-
sun river SHaIei mlcdt DuInInnefSlOn
Vt; fossil, Iowa; fossil coral, Iowa;
barite, New Haven, Conn; fibrous car
Donate of lime, Limestone, Va; spongss,
West Indies; mica schist, Niagara
Falls; talcose schist, Hartland, Vt
clay rock, Martha's Vineyard meta
morphic slate, Nahant; dabase por-
phyritic; coral West Indies; pctrified
wood; micaceous quartz; quartz, Rocky
mountains; white marble and black
marble, Vermont; fossils, New Brun-
swick; orthoceras, Vermont; quartz,
Arkansas; rose quartz, California;
quartz, Colorado; mica, Royalston; ty-
athophyllum giganteum, Auburn, Ne
fossil, Iowa; fossil she'll Iowa; Joggin'
coal fossil, New Brunswick; copper ore,
Idaho; fossil, Florida; tourmaGle,
Warwick; mica nodules in granite; CO.
rails, Jamaica; graphite; gold specimen.
North Ashburnham; calcite; natrOlite.
Nova Scotia; silver ore Eureka mine.
Idaho; silver ore, Amesbury; dlabase
trap rock; fossil coral, Iowa: ortho-
clase; fossil, Mississippi; galena ore.
Galena, Idaho; ore, Vanderbilt. Idaho.
copper and silver ore, southern Idaho.
beryl; coral, Jamaica; black tourma-
line in quartz; Heidelberg fossils Cen
trail New York; Indian arrows. Idaho:
black tourmaline, Brattleboro. VI.
star fish; zoisite, Dummerston. Vt: sill |
yer ore, Arkansas mines: gold and sill
yer ore, near GilmantOn, ID