Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2018
Some time since Prof. Ruskin kindly sent me a specimen of goldquartz brought from New Zealand by Mr. H. A. Severn, giving me leave to cut thin slices for the microscope, and asking me to examine the same. The result seems to me of some interest, and Mr. Ruskin has kindly consented to my bringing it before the Mineralogical Society, together with a notice of a strangely beautiful gold occurrence, described by Mr. Severn as disclosed by blasting in one of the New Zealand gold reefs.