(1) Manuel du Prospecteur (2) Imperial Institute: Monographs on Mineral Resources with Special Reference to the British Empire Copper Ores (3) Imperial Institute: Monographs on Mineral Resources with Special Reference to the British Empire Mercury Ores (4) Nickel: the Mining, Refining and Applications of Nickel (5) Report on the Cupriferous Deposits of Cyprus

Abstract

(i) A BRIEF glance at the contents of this manual suffices to arouse grave doubts as to the author's knowledge of real prospectors. No one who has sat by a prospector's camp fire or shared his hardships in the field, who knows the type of tough,, hardy fellow who starts out to prospect an unknown country with the customary simple equipment-often nothing more than pick, shovel and pan, a bag of food, and a gun across his shoulder-could imagine that chemical equations and crystallographic systems could be of the remotest use or of the faintest interest to him in any circumstances whatever. It is quite certain that he would grudge even the small space that this book would occupy in his pack, even supposing that he could understand it.

(1) Manuel du Prospecteur.

Par P. Bresson. (Bibliothèque professionnelle.) Pp. 452. (Paris: J.—B. Baillière et fils, 1923.) 12 francs net.

(2) Imperial Institute: Monographs on Mineral Resources with Special Reference to the British Empire. Copper Ores.

By R. Allen. Pp. x + 221. (London: John Murray, 1923.) 7s. 6d. net.

(3) Imperial Institute: Monographs on Mineral Resources with Special Reference to the British Empire. Mercury Ores.

By E. Halse. Pp. ix + 101. (London: John Murray, 1923.) 5s. net.

(4) Nickel: the Mining, Refining and Applications of Nickel.

By F. B. Howard White. (Pitman's Common Commodities and Industries.) Pp. x + 118. (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., n.d.) 3s. net.

(5) Report on the Cupriferous Deposits of Cyprus.

By Prof. C. Gilbert Cullis A. Broughton Edge. Pp. 48 + 5 plates. (London: The Crown Agents for the Colonies, 1922.) 20s.