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THIS is an attempt, and a very successful one, to present to the student an elementary treatise, which shall be at once brief but well up to date; a difficult task in the case of a subject of which our stock of knowledge is being continually increased by results scattered through, or buried in, countless separate memoirs. The work is without figures, and is compressed into 316 pages, the first 57 of which are given to a general and introductory discussion of the characters of rocks and the methods of investigation. The reader's sound knowledge of the principles of chemistry, mineralogy, and physical optics is assumed by the author. The classification used in the larger treatises is generally adhered to. The arrangement of the information relative to each rock-family is very neat and compact: first is given a list of chemical analyses, and next a description of the macroscopical and microscopical characters of the component minerals; then follow accounts of the modes of occurrence, alteration, and genesis; and finally a short description of the varieties. The work is altogether satisfactory.
Elemente der Lithologie.
Von Dr. Ernst Kalkowsky. (Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1886.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 33, 342 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/033342a0
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