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THE veteran author of this book has long been known to those interested in the acquisition of minerals. In 1886-1904, he was actively engaged in mineral dealing under the trade name of George L. English and Co.; for the following nine years, until 1913, he was monazite expert to the National Light and Thorium Company; and finally he returned to his old life, first until 1921 as manager of the mineralogy and petrography department and then until 1934 as consulting mineralogist of Ward's Natural Science Establishment. Thus for forty-eight years he has dealt with minerals, and many of the American specimens obtained by collectors during those years have come to them through his agency.
Getting Acquainted with Minerals
by G. L. English. Pp. xi + 324. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1934.) 15s.
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[Short Notices]. Nature 139, 460 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139460a0
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