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XI. Experiments on Allanite, a new Mineral from Greenland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

Thomas Thomson
Affiliation:
Fellow of the Imperial Chirurgo-Medical Academy of Petersburgh.

Extract

About three years ago, a Danish vessel was brought into Leith as a prize. Among other articles, she contained a small collection of minerals, which were purchased by Thomas Allan, Esq; and Colonel Imrie, both members of this Society. The country from which these minerals had been brought was not known for certain; but as the collection abounded in Cryolite, it was conjectured, with very considerable probability, that they had been collected in Greenland.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1812

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References

page 371 note * Der Fruhling, Captain Jacob Ketelson, captured, on her passage from Iceland to Copenhagen.

page 383 note * The specimen of cerite which I analised, was so much mixed with action, that the statement of the results which I obtained cannot be of much importance. The specific gravity of the specimen was 4.149. I found it composed as follows: