New York Mineralogical Club
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The New York Mineralogical Club is the second oldest mineral club in the United States. The club was founded by George Frederick Kunz
George Frederick Kunz
George Frederick Kunz was an American mineralogist and mineral collector.- Overview :Kunz was born in New York City, USA, and began an interest in minerals at a very young age. By his teens, he had amassed a collection of over four thousand items, which he sold for four hundred dollars to the...

, Benjamin B. Chamberlin and Professor Daniel S. Martin, on September 21, 1886 in the home of Professor Daniel S. Martin at 236 West 4th Street, New York City. The club’s collection of more than 700 mineral specimens from New York City is stored at the American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History , located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States, is one of the largest and most celebrated museums in the world...

 and includes a large 6 inch almandine
Almandine
Almandine , also known incorrectly as almandite, is a species of mineral belonging to the garnet Group. The name is a corruption of alabandicus, which is the name applied by Pliny the Elder to a stone found or worked at Alabanda, a town in Caria in Asia Minor. Almandine is an iron alumina garnet,...

garnet called the Subway Garnet discovered in 1885.
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