Abstract
IN this book the author has aimed at a popular ex-positiuii of the elements of mineralogy, his declared intention being “to answer questions rather than to rehearse facts.” In preparing it, he has taken advantage of his experience as Curator of Mineralogy in the American Museum of Natural History, and has fashioned the book to answer questions usually put by visitors to the Museum. About a third of the book is given to the principles of mineralogy, including chapters on “Nature's mathematics” (crystallography), “the mimicry of minerals,” “water as a maker of minerals,” and “change and decay in minerals.” The remaining chapters describe some of the commoner minerals and groups of minerals. The book is very well illustrated, and should prove interesting as well as useful to those numerous visitors to the Museum who have not previously studied the science of mineralogy.
The Story of Minerals.
Herbert P.
Whitlock
By. (The American Museum of Natural History, Handbook Series No. 12.) Pp. 144. (New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1925.) n.p.
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The Story of Minerals . Nature 117, 752 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117752c0
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