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AN elaborate investigation of the melting points of the felspars, devised and carried out by Messrs. Day and Allen in the physical laboratory of the United States Geological Survey, is described in a memoir just received.1 The geological importance of laboratory research at high temperatures was strongly urged by the late Clarence King and Dr. Becker, and the well known work of Dr. Carl Barus has already furnished petrologists with a number of valuable data. The laboratory, discontinued in 1892 for want of funds, has been re-established by the exertions of Dr. Becker, and the piece of work before us has been in part subsidised by the trustees of the Carnegie Institution.
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H., A. High Temperature Research on the Felspars . Nature 72, 258–259 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072258b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/072258b0