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THIS volume is more concerned with the statistics and economics of silver than with technology, although an interesting account of the extraction, purification, and utilisation of silver is given. There are many useful tables. An interesting chapter deals with “The Evolution of British Coinage.” The book is addressed to the general reader, but contains much of service to teachers and students.
Silver: Its Intimate Association with the Daily Life of Man.
By Benjamin White. (Pitman's Common Commodities and Industries.) Pp. xi + 144. (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., n.d.) Price 2s. 6d. net.
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Silver: Its Intimate Association with the Daily Life of Man . Nature 105, 774 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105774c0
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