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Excerpt from Descriptive Mineralogy: With Especial Reference to the Occurrences and Uses of Minerals
This text is based to a large extent upon lectures delivered for a number of years by the author at the University of Michigan. It does not attempt to cover the entire field of Mineralogy, but is to aid the student attending the lectures on Descriptive Mineralogy. Blank pages have been bound into the text so that supplementary notes may be easily added. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.