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Mining for Metals in Wales

By F. J. North. Pp. viii + 112 + 8 plates. (Cardiff: National Museum of Wales, 1962.) 12s. 6d.

The System of Mineralogy

By James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana. Vol. 3: Silica Minerals. Seventh edition entirely rewritten and greatly enlarged by Prof. Clifford Frondel. Pp. xii + 334. (New York and London: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1962.) 60s.

Volcanoes and their Activity

By A. Rittmann. Translated from the Second German Edition by E. A. Vincent. Pp. xiv + 305. (New York and London: Interscience Publishers, a division of John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1962.) 90s.

Introduction to Physical Geology

By Prof. Chester R. Longwell and Prof. Richard F. Flint. Second edition. Pp. 504. (New York and London: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1962.) 60s.

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The Earth Sciences. Nature 199, 1125–1126 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/1991125b0

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