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THIS book is in three parts, which are separately paged. They are also on sale separately. The first part consists of concise, clearly printed descriptions of the different mineral species, and should prove useful for their recognition by the student or prospector. This will be facilitated by the use of the folding tables of the physical characters of the different minerals, which are a special feature of the work. The second part deals with the blowpipe analysis of minerals. Here also the results are set out in a convenient tabular form. The third part, which is devoted to crystallography, is not so satisfactory. The author has a system peculiar to himself of describing crystal symmetry which is by no means clear. He is also exceptional at the present time in retaining the Weiss system of notation of crystal faces.
Handbook of Mineralogy, Blowpipe Analysis, and Geometrical Crystallography.
Prof.
G. Montague
Butler
By. Pp. ix + 311 + v + 80 + viii + 155. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1918.) Price 16s. 6d. net.
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E., J. Handbook of Mineralogy, Blowpipe Analysis, and Geometrical Crystallography . Nature 104, 434 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/104434c0
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