326 GEMS AND PRECIOUS STONES IN THE
has some superb fancy colored diamonds, sapphires and other interesting precious stones.
Judge
Henry Hilton, of New York City, owns the finest collection of colored
diamonds in the United States, ninety-seven in number, including many
shades of brown, yellow, green,. pink, and other colors. Mrs. T. N. C.
Lowe, of Norristown, Pa., has an extensive collection of precious and
fancy stones, and Mrs. M. J. Chase, of Philadelphia, Pa., some
exceptionally choice and rare specimens in her cabinet.
Among
the fine collections containing interesting gem specimens, to some of
which reference has been made, may be mentioned the magnificent cabinet
of Yale University, formed in the early part of the century, which
contains the well-known Gibbs collection; the Tenney tourmalines; and
in the same building, Peabody Museum, the private collection of Prof.
George J. Brush; the Harvard University collection at Cambridge, Mass.;
the collection of the School of Mines, Columbia College, New York City;
that of Cornell University, at Ithaca, N. Y., which contains the
Silliman Cabinet; of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor,
containing the collection of the late Baron Lederer, one of the finest
and most complete private collections known; incorporated with it is
the famous Blum Collection;' that of Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore; of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and in
the building with it, the magnificent cabinet of the late William S.
Vaux. At Hamilton College, Clinton, Oneida County, N. Y., is the Root
Collection, and also the collection of Prof. Albert H. Chester; at
Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., the collection of the late Charles
M. Wheatley; at Amherst College, Amherst, Mass., the collection of
Charles U. Shepard and others. The State Cabinet at Albany, N. Y.,
contains the Emmons Collection among others, as well as a neat case of
precious and ornamental stones. The cabinet of Prof. Thomas Egleston of
New York, is one of the finest crystallographical collections in the
United States, and contains many unique and choice crystals of Russian
and other gem minerals. The Canfield Collection, formed by the father
of the
