Minerals and How to Study Them by E. S. Dana
Abstract
<h2>Acta Crystallographica</h2><h3></h3><h3>0365-110X</h3> <h2>book reviews</h2> Volume 3 Part 1 Pages 78-79 January 1950 <h2> Minerals and How to Study Them by E. S. Dana</h2> G. W. Brindley Minerals and How to Study Them. By the late E. S. DA~A, revised by C S. HURLBUT, Jr. Pp. 323 + x. New York : Wiley; London: Chapman and Hall. 3rd ed. 1949. Price $3.90; 24s. It is a tribute to the original book, published in 1895, that after more than half a century, during which great changes in mineralogy have taken place, it should be considered worth while to reissue it. Moreover, although 'much... has been rewritten ', 'an effort has been made to maintain the same point of view for the same reader, the beginner in mineralogy'. Before the book can be fairly judged, one should know what kind of beginner is contemplated; is he an amateur with little or perhaps no scientific background, or a first-year student at a University who will pursue the subject further in subsequent years? The answer can perhaps be inferred from the contents of the book. In the first place, it is clear that minerals are to be studied by qualitative rather than quantitative