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Geology and Mineralogy

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THE homely saying that the proof of the pudding is in the eating is well exemplified by this well-known text-book, now in its twenty-third edition, which has guided the footsteps of so many generations of students of mineralogy.

Rutley's Elements of Mineralogy

23rd edition by Prof. H. H. Read. Pp. viii + 490. (London: Thomas Murby and Co.; New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1936.) 8s. net.

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Geology and Mineralogy. Nature 139, 459–460 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139459c0

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