Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
The appearance of Professor E. Weinschenk's paper at the close of last year on two specimens of Moldavite from Kuttenburg, in Bohemia, affords a convenient opportunity of recording occurrences of the related ‘obsidianites’ (referred to by Professor Weinschenk as Billitonite and Australite) in the Malay Peninsula.
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page 412 note 2 Op. cit., p. 739.
page 413 note 1 The Pahang obsidiauites, like obsidianites elsewhere, have been stated to be pieces of slag resulting from smelting operations. A comparison of the physical and chemical properties of obsidianites and slag from a furnace in operation shows how wide of the mark this view is. A more interesting theory emanated from a Malay Rajah, who told the writer that he had collected a number of these stones and believed each to contain a gem in the centre. A valuation was asked for, and the writer felt sorry that it should fall to his lot to destroy the Rajah's belief by cracking one open for his inspection.