Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 91. (Budapest 1999)

Kázmér, M. ; Papp, G.: Minerals from the Carpathians in an eighteenth-century British collection

p. 13. Sales £,.7. Vitriolum album nativum Schemnicense, Hungaricum. <Native white vitriol, Schemnitz, Hungary.> Dr. Leopold. {E-8-28} White vitriol is generally regarded as a synonym of goslaritc, ZnS04.7H?0. However, il may refer to melanterite, FeSC>4.7H20, cf. RuLAND (1612). Both minerals are known from Schemnitz. Cinnabaris p. 14. 0.12. Native Cinnabar. Hungary. M. Sam. Robeseri <Köleséri>. {E-9-24} p. 15. Antimonium 71.27. Native antimony, cover'd with a brownish Crust, after the manner of that of Cornwall. Mr. Sam. Robeseri <Köleséri>. This is from Hungary. Native antimony here corresponds to stibnite. Dendritae f. Fossilia Artis ope redacta p. 21. C0.6. Charta, ex Asbesto Lapida Hungarica facta. <Paper made from Hungarian asbestos stone.> Dr. Breyn. {E-l

6-43} PRICE'S notice: Missing? KÁZMÉR'

s notice: At the location E-l

6-43 I found a piece of paper, almost illegible. The number \\i.43. could be read. Probably it is BREYN'S notice, and another hand - WOODWARD? wrote the words 'Hungarico' and 'J. B. Breynii' on it. PRICE considered this piece of paper as the label of a missing specimen, but this is the specimen itself: a piece of asbestos paper. In WOODWARD'S time the most important and well known occurrence of chrysotilc asbestos was Dobschau or Dobsina (now Dobsiná in Slovakia). CSIBA (1714) remarked that during RÁKÓCZl's War of Independence (1703-1711) a foreigner made fabric and paper from the asbestos collected at this locality.