Barnsley, Edward R. - 1943

PENN STATE ALUMNIS GIVES RARE COLLECTION

A former student of the Pennsylvania State College who is now in the armed forces has sent to his Alma Marter a collection of unusual and precious minerals.

Trained at Penn State as a geologist, Corporal Edward R. Barnsley, not at Hot Springs, Ark., has found time to search for these minerals which will be added to the museum in the School of Mineral Industries.

Specimens sent in by Barnsley include cinnabar, wavellite, [sic] crystal quartz, and lodestone.  The quartz is a rare specimen that at one was broken but has healed itself.

Cinnabar is a ore of mercury, and wavellite [sic] is a source of aluminum phosphate.  The lodestone is also of rare quality that will magnetize other things placed in contact with it.
~ Bellwood Bulletin, 01-Apr-1943, Page 2, Column 3