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THIS well-known handbook of the Victoria and Albert Museum has now reached a second edition. It is difficult to say whether the scientific or artistic side of the work is worthy of the higher praise; certain it is that no work on the subject has better combined the two kinds of information. Within the small compass of this little work, Prof. Church has succeeded in giving the most exact and up-to-date account of the best methods of distinguishing the various gem-stones, so often, by design or accident, mistaken for one another.
Precious Stones considered in their Scientific and Artistic Relations.
By Prof. A. H. Church Pp. vii + 135. (London: Wyman and Sons, 1905.) Price 1s. 6d.; in cloth 2s. 3d.
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J., J. Precious Stones . Nature 73, x (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/07300xa0
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