Familiar lessons on mineralogy and geology ... To which is added a practical description of the use of the lapidary's apparatus / [John Mawe].

  • John Mawe
Date:
1830
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Credit: Familiar lessons on mineralogy and geology ... To which is added a practical description of the use of the lapidary's apparatus / [John Mawe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. XN preparing for publication the present Edition of the Lessons on Mineralogy, it occurred to me, that it would be interesting to the Student to have a short enu • meration of those substances, described in the ensuing pa¬ ges, which are more immediately connected with com¬ merce and the arts, and most likely to engage his atten¬ tion whenever he moves abroad, for to the Student in Mineralogy— “ No rock is barren, and no field is waste,” Ihe pavement of our streets, the most uncultivated and barren moor, afford ample scope for investigation and amusement. The substances which compose the subjoined list may very properly be classed under the title—