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evenings after a hard day's work in the open air, or of early hours stolen from the morning before the regular labours of the day began.

It only now remains for the author to express his grateful thanks to his friends, Mr. Robert Hunt (Keeper of Mining Records), and, especially, to Mr. Warington Smyth, for their valuable aid in revising the proofs in passing through the press, and for enabling him to avoid many errors, which, but for their advice, would otherwise unavoidably have occurred.

The figures of crystals have all been carefully drawn on the wood by Mr. J. B. Jordan of the Mining Record Office, and the whole of the wood-cuts have been executed by Mr. S. J. Mackie. For the tail-piece the author is indebted to Miss Kennedy, by whom it was drawn on the wood; and for the following jeu d'esprit to his colleague, Mr. J. W. Salter, of the Geological Survey.

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The following is a list of the principal books which have been referred to in compiling this work.

System of Mineralogy, by Robert Jameson, 3 vols., 1805.

Manual of the Mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland, by R. P. Greg and W. G. Lettsom, 1858.

System of Mineralogy, by James D. Dana, 4th edition, 2 vols., 1854.

W. Phillips's Elementary Introduction to Mineralogy, by R. Allan, 4th edition, 1837. Hand-book of Chemistry, by Leopold Gmelin, translated by Henry Watts for the Cavendish Society.

Elementary Treatise on Mineralogy for the use of Beginners, by D. Varley, 1849.

W. Phillips's Elementary Introduction to Mineralogy, by H. J. Brooke and W. H. Miller, 1852.

Manual of Mineralogy, by James Nicol, 1849.

Traité de Minéralogie, par A. Dufrénoy, 5 vols. Paris, 1856-9.

Mineralogy and Crystallography, by J. Tennant and W. Mitchell, 1856.

Descriptive Guide to the Museum of Practical Geology, by Robert Hunt, F.R.S.; 2nd edition, 1859.

Descriptive Catalogue of the Rock Specimens in the Museum of Practical Geology, by A. C. Ramsay, H. W. Bristow, H. Bauerman, and A. Geikie; 2nd edition, 1859. Elements of Mineralogy, by Richard Kirwan; 2nd edition, 2 vols., 1794.

A Treatise on Diamonds and Pearls, by David Jeffries, 1751.

Traité élémentaire de Minéralogie, par F. S. Beudant; 2nd edition, 2 vols., 1852.
Traité complet des Pierres précieuses, par Charles Barbot. Paris, 1858.

Pliny translated into English, by Philemon Holland, Doctor of Phisicke, 1601.

Theophrastus's History of Stones, with an English version by Sir John Hill, 2nd edition, 1774.

The American Journal of Science and Arts. New Haven, U.S.

Annales des Mines. Paris.

Edinburgh Philosophical Journal.

Philosophical Magazine, or Annals of Chemistry.

Annales de Chimie et de Physique. Paris.

Outlines of Mineralogy, by Dr. Th. Thomson, 2 vols., 1836.

Reports on the Geology of Canada, by Sir William Logan. Montreal.

Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London.

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