Min. [Named 1853 after Rev. Prof. Jellett of Dublin: see -ITE.] A green variety of lime-iron garnet.
1853. Apjohn, in Jrnl. Geol. Soc., Dublin, V. 120. This mineral, which is undoubtedly new, it is proposed to call Jellettite, after the distinguished mathematician through whose means it has been made the subject of chemical and mineralogical examination.
1868. Dana, Min. (ed. 5), 269. Jelletite is green garnet, light or dark, and yellowish-green, from the moraine of the Findel glacier near Zermatt.
