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IN NATURE (vol. xxxvi. p. 63), I find the following note:—“The largest piece of amber ever discovered was recently dug up near the Nobi's Gate, at Altona, It weighed 850 grammes.” I beg to state that a piece of amber, weighing 5.6 kilogrammes, is in the possession of Messrs. Stantien and Becker, in Königsberg, and that pieces weighing 6.5 and 9.5 kilogrammes can be seen in the Berlin Mineralogical Museum, both discovered off the sea coast of North Germany. Even as far inland as Silesia, a piece of Baltic amber, weighing 3 kilogrammes, has been found in the bed of the River Oder, near Breslau. Baltic amber occurs in Silesia also as high as 1400 feet above the level of the sea.
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MEYER, A. Amber. Nature 39, 105 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/039105b0
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