IV. &ESIN FAMILY. This Family contains the following species, viz. Amber. Honeystone, Retin-Asphalt, and Fossil Copal. I. Amber. Bernstein, Werner. This species contains two subspeeies, 1. White Ambers 2. Yellow Amber. First Subspecies. White Amber. Weisser Bernstein, Werner. id. Werner, Pabst. b. i. s. 867.—Le Succin blahc, Brodh. (. ii, p. 6Q.—Weisser Bernstein, Reuss, b. iii. s. 166. Id. Leonhard, Tabel. s. 47. Id. Karsfen, Tabel. s. 58. Id. Haus. s. 117' Id. Lenz, b. ii. s. 1093. External Characters. Its colour is straw-yellow, which sometimes inclines to yellowish-white. It occurs massive, and sometimes inclosed in the yellow subspecies. It is glistening, approaching to shining, and the lustre is resinous. The fracture is conchoidal, but not so perfect as in the yellow subspecies. Th»
