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Phenacite and other minerals from German East Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

L. J. Spencer*
Affiliation:
British Museum

Extract

A small collection of minerals, together with other natural history specimens, has recently been acquired by the British Museum from the Rev. A. North Wood, a missionary in the Usagara (Ussagara) province of German East Africa. Mr. Wood's station is situated at Itumba, and the specimens had been brought o him by the natives from the surrounding district, mainly from places between Mamboya and Mpapwa, which lie on the caravan route from the coast opposite Zanzibar westwards into the interior to Lake Tanganyika.

The rocks of the district are biotite-gneiss and hornblende-gneiss, the latter with small garnets.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1906

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References

Page 178 note 1 Dantz, C., Mitth. Deutschen Schutzgebieten, 1902, vol. xv, p. 52 Google Scholar (Abstract in Zeits. prakt. Geol., 1902, Jahrg. x, p. 306).

Page 178 note 2 The Kisitwi range extends between Rubeho and Mulale (or Mlali) ; there is also a small village of the same name.

Page 178 note 3 British Museum, No. 1905, 115.

Page 179 note 1 The method of giving a plan of the crystal together with the clinographic drawing was employed by N. I. Koksharov, in 1853, in his ‘Materialien zur Mineralogic Russlands’ (compare this volume, p. 44).

Page 183 note 1 Bernhardt, W., ‘Zur Oberflächengestaltung und Geologie Deutsch-Ostafrikas,’ Berlin, 1900, p. 828 Google Scholar (abstract in Zeits. Kryst. Min., 1902, vol. xxxvi, p. 422; see also Zelts. prakt. Geol., 1903, Jahrg. xi, p. 199).

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