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Excerpt from Manual of Mineralogy and Lithology: Containing the Elements of the Science of Minerals and Rocks; For the Use of the Practical Mineralogist and Geologist, and for Instruction in Schools and Colleges
The student is referred to the Text-book of Mineralogy, prepared mainly by Mr. E. S. Dana, for a detailed exposition of the subject of crystallography after Naumann's and Miller's systems, and also of optical mineralogy and other physical branches Of the science; to the Manual of Determinative Mineralogy and Blowpipe Analysis by Professor george J. Brush, for a thorough work on the use of the blowpipe, and complete tables for the determination Of minerals; and to the author's Descriptive Mineralogy and its Appendixes for a comprehensive treatise on all known minerals.
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