Native Metals, or Metalliferous Minerals; these are found in masses or beds, in veins, and occasionally in the beds of rivers. Specimens of the following Metallic Ores are put in the Cabinet:—Iron, Manganese, Lead, Tin, Zinc, Copper, Antimony, Silver, Gold, Platina, &c.
Rocks; Granite, Gneiss, Mica-slate, Clay-slate, Porphyry, Serpentine, Sandstones, Limestones, Basalt, Lavas, &c.
Silurian Fossils from the Llandeilo, Wenlock, and Ludlow Rocks.
Secondary Fossils from the Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Lias, Oolite, Purbeck, Wealden, and Cretaceous Groups.
Tertiary Fossils from the Thanet Sands, Woolwich and Reading beds, Bracklesham, Barton, and London Clays, Isle of Wight fresh-water series, Crag, &c.
Mr. Tennant has also models of many unique and rare fossils; as for example, teeth, horn, claw-bones, &c. of the Iguanodon; lily encrinite; small models of the upright coal-trees, near Bolton; of the magnificent Plesiosaurus of Mr. Hawkins’s collection, now in the British Museum (price 4l. 4s.); Mr. Sopwith’s models of stratification, &c.
Topping, Mr. 1, York-place, Pentonville-hill; supplies boards and cases, and every kind of fossil infusoria, &c.; polished slices of fossil wood and teeth; and all kinds of microscopical objects, admirably prepared, and at moderate prices.
British Museum.—Models of some of the most remarkable fossils in the National Collection (a list of which is published in the "Synopsis of the British Museum ") may be purchased of the Formatore.
Microscopes.—A microscope is now an indispensable instrument for the collector of fossil remains; and, in fact, for the cultivator of any natural science. A microscope sufficient for every useful purpose may be obtained, at the price of from seven to twenty guineas, of—