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SIX years have elapsed since our announcement in NATURE of the appearance of this book, and now the call for a second edition indicates the continually increasing popularity of the work, not only in France, but especially abroad, where more than half of the first edition has been sold. This popularity must be ascribed mainly to the fact that M. de Lapparent's “Cours de Mineralogie” was the first educational work in which the crystallographic theories of Bravais and Mallard were expounded as a system, and constituted, one may say, the basis of his lectures.
Cours de Minéralogie.
Par A. de Lapparent. 2me édition. (Paris: F. Savy, 1890.)
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RENARD, A. De Lapparent's “Mineralogy”. Nature 40, 460 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040460a0
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