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THE authors of this work have earned for themselves so high a reputation by their numerous and successful experiments in the synthesis of minerals and of rocks, that we may almost take for granted the thoroughness of the work now issued. Till the appearance of this volume the results obtained since 1872 (when a similar compilation was published by Fuchs) were to be sought in scattered memoirs; all results up to the present date are here collected into a single treatise, provided with an excellent set of indices. In an interesting but brief introduction (thirty pages) the advantages accruing to mineralogy and petrology from these syntheses are pointed out and the various methods of experiment explained. The next fifty pages are devoted to the experiments having for aim the synthesis of rocks, and the remainder of the volume (300 pages) to those which have resulted in the reproduction of minerals. In each instance careful references to the original memoirs and a distinct statement of the application of the results to geology are given. The book is very well printed on good paper, and has for frontispiece a coloured plate showing the appearance in polarised light of thin sections of artificial leucotephrite and basalt.
Synthèse des Minéraux et des Roches.
Par F. Fouqué M. Lévy. (Paris: G. Masson.)
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F., L. Our Book Shelf . Nature 26, 452 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026452a0
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