Abstract
THE professed purpose of this little book is “to tell to the people the story of the minerals”, and to this end the author has been careful to keep his text free from all technicalities. The opening section offers brief advice on where to look for minerals and how to collect them, “how to tell minerals apart” (by means of hardness, specific gravity, blowpipe tests, etc.), and gives some account of crystals and their classification. The main part of the book contains short descriptions of the most common minerals, well illustrated with photographs of museum specimens. To one knowing nothing of the subject “The Book of Minerals” would provide a pleasant companion for a walk round a museum collection. The young collector, for -whom in. many ways tlae book seems to be designed, would soon reach a stage when this “Mineralogy without Tears” would no longer satisfy his growing thirst for knowledge.
The Book of Minerals
Alfred C.
Hawkins
By. Pp. xii + 161. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1935.) 7s. 6d. net.
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A., B. The Book of Minerals. Nature 137, 802 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137802b0
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