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THAT a new edition of this important and admirable manual has been issued will be good news to all interested in mineralogy, and especially to the teacher and student. The book, which now consists of 517 pages, is well arranged throughout, and contains, as all such books should do, a full index. The whole body of mineralogical science is here brought to focus, and the present edition, in that part of it relating to the description of minerals, is brought down to the year 1886, many new species described during the past six years being included. The chapter on rocks has been re-written, re-arranged, and enlarged, and many illustrations are new. We would suggest to the learned author that in the next edition a chapter on meteorites and their mineralogy would form an appropriate and much-valued addition.
Manual of Mineralogy and Petrography, containing the Elements of the Science of Minerals and Rocks.
By James D. Dana. Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Illustrated by numerous Woodcuts. (New York: Wiley and Sons; London: Trübner and Co., 1887.)
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Our Book Shelf . Nature 37, 53 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037053a0
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