Some thirty-five years or so ago small quantities of free gold were found in calcite in or near a crush-breccia filling an east and west fault, in the patch of Middle Devonian limestone which forms that portion of the coast known as Daddy Hole Plain directly south-east of Torquay. The name of the actual discoverer I have been unable to ascertain, neither do any specimens appear to have been preserved ; but the late Mr. T. Harrison, the then proprietor of the Queen's Hotel, Torquay, and several other persons subscribed about s and a small amount of prospecting work was carried out, apparently with little result. The only reference to this discovery which I know of is a brief one in 'The geology of the country around Torquay' (Mere. Geol. Survey, 1903, p. 48). To Mr. B. W. Stedham of Torquay I am indebted for the additional particulars given and also for pointing out to me the exact spot, which is on the side of a fissure formed by a large pinnacle of rock standing away from the cliff below the old quarry.

The specimens which form the subject of the present notes were contained ill a collection of minerals formed by the late Mr. Alfred Fox, of Falmouth, and which was acquired by myself in 1909. According to an old label with them, they are described as 'Murio-carbonate of lead taken up the 4th March, 1846, flora the wreck of the fire-shlp Firebrand, which was burnt in Falmouth Harbour about the year 1780. They were found under the lead pump, most of which appeared to be melted and mixed with charcoal.'

a gentleman well known in his day both as a scientist and traveller. The major part of the collection unfortunately left this country, having been purchased by the dealer F. Krantz of Bonn. A few lots were, however, bought by myself, and one of these contained the first specimen to be here described.This specimen consists of one-half of a small geode 7 • 5 cm. formed of brown and velvety black limonite, some partially altered chalybite, ferruginous crystalline quartz, and a little galena. In this geode and upon the limonite are emplanted several very brilliant crystals of phosgenite, one large tabular crystal of anglesite, and numerous smaller crystals of laurionite. The specimen had no label, but besides being certainly Cornish, it came, almost without doubt, from the silver-lead mine of Wheal Rose in the parish of Sithney. With this specimen there were others of cerussite labelled Wheal 13o01 (a neighbouring mine). Further, the geode exactly resembles similar geodes containing cerussite and anglesite which have been found by myself on one of the old dumps at Wheal Rose. The limonite on all of the specimens is exceedingly characteristic of the locality, showing evidence of being pseudomorphous after chalybite.The other specimen, which is in the Brooke collection at Cambridge, (no. 2302) is especially referred to by Greg and Lettsom under cromfordite (phosgenite) as being the only specimen of that mineral known

James Sowerby in his ‘British Mineralogy’ describes and figures sider the head of ‘Argilla electrica’ or ‘White Tourmaline’ a mineral which was undoubtedly phenacite. The specimen was sent to Sowerb,y by a Mr. Herbert in 1804, and was said to have been found in a mine in St. Just, Cornwall. According to Sowerby's description and from the eoloured plate which he gives of the specimen, the mineral occurred as long-prismatlc, colourless crystals , some of which were doubly terminated and lying upon and partly penetrated by mass of prismatic quartz crystals. The crystals were ‘so divided by cracks and flaws in general as to appear of an opaque whiteness in parts’.

Native arsenic has hitherto ranked as a distinctly doubtful British species. The following notes contain, however, an account of its occurrence at two localities in Cornwall. John Garbyin his ‘Catalogue of Minerals found in Cornwall’ states that native arsenic had been found in Dolcoath mine, Camborne, associated with ores of cobalt. Greg and Lettsom repeat this statement with a doubtful qualification. J. H. Collins also mentions Cooks Kitchen mine, Illogan, as another doubtful locality. The occurrence as an associate of smaltite and native bismuth, minerals that have on several occasions been found in Dolcoath, is by no means unlikely, although, as far as I have been able to ascertain, no specimens of native arsenic from any of these reported localities have been preserved.