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WHILE the third volume of this work possessed a certain interest for the statesman and the capitalist, including as it did descriptions of the minerals of economic value, the present one will only claim the attention of scientific readers. It may be a matter of surprise that nearly all that is certainly known about the minerals of India should be capable of compression into less than two hundred pages. But, as the author points out, excavations for mining or other purposes have not, as a rule, been superintended by men possessing the knowledge requisite to enable them to record facts of scientific importance; further, there is no demand for non-economic minerals, and consequently no mercenary incentive to collect specimens.
A Manual of the Geology of India.
Part IV. Mineralogy. By F. R. Mallet. Published by order of the Indian Government. (London: Trübner and Co., 1887.)
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Our Book Shelf . Nature 37, 556 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037556a0
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