Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Minerals, and How to Study Them: A Book for Beginners in Mineralogy
The author has occupied some hours, which could not be devoted to more serious labor, in preparing this little book, in the hope that it might serve to encourage those who have a desire to learn, about minerals, and also to in crease the number of those whose tastes may lead them in this direction. He shares with most teachers at the pres ent time the conviction that the cultivation of the powers of observation is a most essential element in the education of young people of both sexes; he believes, further, that no subject is better fitted to accomplish this object and at the same time to excite active interest than that of Miner alogy. The attempt has been made to present the whole subject in a clear, simple, and, so far as possible, a read able form without too much detail and at the same time without cheapening the science. As the understanding of the different parts of the subject requires some preliminary knowledge of physics and of chemistry, a little elementary matter in these departments has been introduced.
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