British Museum
An Introduction to the Study of Rocks and Guide to the Museum Collection
Paperback
(Forgotten Books Sept. 6, 2012)
Introductions to the Study of Meteorites and Minerals, published in 1881 and 1884, respectively. It attempts to give, from a Museum point of view, a simple sketch of the relationships of Rocks, indicating all the more important characters and pointing out their significance. In a perfect Introduction mere speculation would be oided, and only statements would be made of which the icuracy could be proved, or at any rate suggested, by means of specimens small enough to be exhibited in proper sequence in the cases of a Museum. Further, the ideal Introduction would be brief, and yet not too condensed to be intelligible to every Visitor who, though without special scientific knowledge, has had a general education and is ready to give a amount of thought to the subject. But there are practical difficulties in the preparation of such guide-book; the whole of a rock-mass cannot be exhibited chi ledgi bod. gu lous characters or changes and many rocks require ical analysis for their disin a Museum, the causes of vario cannot be shown in actual operatic microscopic examination or chemic crimination: yet an Introduction even distantly approaching the ideal will doubtless be of service to those who come toE Mineral Collections of the Natural History Museum. L. Fletcher.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at
- Pages
- 128
- Weight
- 7.0 oz.
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