Abstract
ONE of the most difficult tasks in the field of technical literature is the preparation of a thoroughly good elementary text-book of an industrial art, land the difficulty is especially conspicuous when the subject dealt with is mining, with its incursions into mathematics, physics, chemistry, geology, mineralogy, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, law, and sanitary science. It is not astonishing that the task has not hitherto been attempted. In French and German there are several useful works of the kind; but in English, elementary textbooks have dealt exclusively with but one branch of the subject, the best example being the rudimentary treatise written a generation ago for Weale's series by the late Sir Warington Smyth.
The Elements of Mining and Quarrying.
By Sir C. Le Neve Foster Pp. xviii + 321. (London: Charles Griffin and Co., Ltd., 1903.) Price 7s. 6d. net.
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B., B. The Elements of Mining and Quarrying . Nature 69, 603–604 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069603a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/069603a0
