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LIKE the previous volumes in the series of Advanced Science Manuals published by Messrs. Longmans, this satisfies the requirements of the advanced stage of the Department of Science and Art. A sub-title informs us that the book is “a manual for students in advanced classes and for general readers.” But while we believe the work to be well suited for use among students learning geology on South Kensington lines, we should be sorry to recommend it to the general reader, that is to say, to the person who reads geology for the pleasure it affords, and not with the idea of eventually exercising the acquired knowledge in an examination room. The author has collected together an abundance of facts, but the student who has to digest them all deserves our sympathy. There are, however, several good points about the book. One of these is the chapter on the industrial uses of rocks, in which numerous buildings, monuments, and other structures in London and elsewhere are noted as examples of various kinds of building materials. References to the practical application of geology to water supply, agriculture, and mining are also frequently made, and will doubtless endear the book to the man who measures the value of a science by its odirect use in commercial life.
Geology.
By Charles Bird Pp. viii., 430. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894.)
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Our Book Shelf. Nature 50, 171 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/050171a0
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