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Ch. 2: Forms and Materials of Rings

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The personality of the collector added greatly to the charm of this collection for all who had known him. As art editor of the Century Magazine, and in a thousand other ways, no one had labored more enthusiastically and successfully in the cause of art encouragement and art education, and his death constituted a real loss for the progress of art in America
The valuable and carefully chosen collection of gem stones set in rings, which was made by the late Sir Arthur Herbert Church (1834-1915), has been presented by his widow, Lady Church, to the trustees of the British Museum and is shown in the Natural History building.27
Only three of the rings are set with more than a single stone.
Of the 18 examples in the British Museum collection of the interesting class of rings cut out of a single stone, The collection comprises 169 specimens, 45 of them zircons, fully illustrating the wide range of color to be found in this gem-stone ; two of them are of a beautiful sky-blue. The following list gives the number of rings for each mineral species :
27 Communicated by Dr. Leonard J. Spencer, Curator of the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Nat. Hist.).
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