Physikalische Krystallographie und Einleitung in die krystallographische Kenntniss der wichtigeren Substanzen

Abstract

NEARLY twenty years ago, in 1876, the present writer was acting as Demonstrator in Physics at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, and chanced to see on Prof. Clifton's table a book just published, which differed in subject and treatment from any he had then met with. It contained in small compass (523 pages) that part of Physics which was more especially related to crystallised matter, and without delaying the reader with difficult or abstruse problems, gave in the most fascinating way a general idea of the physical and morphological symmetry of crystals. A few months later, and as a direct consequence of the interest in crystals thus aroused, the writer was advised to submit himself to Mr. Maskelyne as a candidate for the assistantship in the Mineral Department of the British Museum, just vacated owing to health-failure by Mr. Lewis, since appointed Professor of Mineralogy at Cambridge. The book was the “Physikalische Krystallographie” of Paul Groth, and the present writer is glad to have this opportunity, when giving a notice of the third edition of this useful book, to put on record his sense of gratitude to the author, a feeling which is doubtless shared by other crystallographic students in this country.

Physikalische Krystallographie und Einleitung in die krystallographische Kenntniss der wichtigeren Substanzen.

Von P. Groth. Dritte, vollständig neu bearbeitete Auflage. Pp. 783. (Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1894–5.)