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THE demand for a fourth edition of this handsome work is sufficient testimony to its educational value. The volume reflects the lucid teaching of its author, and the present editor, Dr. Robert Campbell, has found it desirable to make alterations only in definitions and in descriptions of minerals and rocks, in accordance with current usage. Chemical formulæ, which are so useful in suggesting alliances among rock-forming minerals, are still studiously avoided, except in the case of simple oxides. This is surely now unnecessary, when some knowledge of chemistry must be required of all students of a scientific subject. Though Dr. James Geikie expressly stated that he did not write for specialists, a very little more would have held the interest of the reader.
Structural and Field Geology: For Students of Pure and Applied Science.
By Dr. James Geikie, Fourth edition, revised. Pp. xxiv + 454 + lxix plates. (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd; London: Gurney and Jackson; 1920.) Price 24s. net.
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C., G. Structural and Field Geology: For Students of Pure and Applied Science . Nature 106, 209 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106209b0
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