Rock-Forming Minerals (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Rock-Forming Minerals

Students on the Continent are well supplied with text-books giving instruction in the more recent methods of petrographical research; but in this country it is otherwise, and those who wish for such teaching in their own tongue fare badly, unless they can attend lectures and devote their time to a course of systematic work in the laboratory. Even then there is a constant demand for a book to which they can refer for information enabling them to determine the chief rock-forming minerals. Yet, although many of the works now published supply them with much that is useful, this want seems still to remain unsatisfied.

It is essentially a students want. Whether this book will in any way meet it, at least for the time being, is a question, best answered by the book itself.

Text-books of mineralogy and petrology are, to a great extent, necessarily compilations from others bearing upon these or upon collateral branches of science.

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