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tion to the original articles, a more or less complete summary 

 of mineralogical papers printed elsewhere. In consequence 

 of this almost every paper bearing upon the science, wher- 

 ever published, sooner or later finds mention in one of these 

 half-dozen periodicals, and hence the range of mineralogical 

 literature is narrowed down and brought within the reach 

 of all those interested in what is being done. 



RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 



The number of independent works on mineralogy which 

 have appeared w 7 ithin the past year is not large. Prominent 

 among them stands the descriptive " Catalogue of the Min- 

 eralogical Collection of the Strasburg University." This is 

 a quarto volume of nearly three hundred pages, prepared by 

 Professor Groth. It is a work of more general importance 

 than its name would indicate; for it contains not only a cat- 

 alogue of the individual specimens in this exceptionally fine 

 and complete collection, but also full crystallographic de- 

 scriptions of the different species. In many cases these de- 

 scriptions are in fact real monographs, and contain a large 

 number of new facts. 



The veteran mineralogist and poet of Munich, Von Kobell, 

 has issued a fifth edition of his excellent little "Mineralogy." 



The great work undertaken by Schrauf of Vienna the "At- 

 las of Forms of Crystals" has been advanced one stage far- 

 ther towards completion by the publication of the fifth part. 

 This work contains the figures of the various forms of the 

 crystals of the different species. These species are arranged 

 alphabetically; and as the author has not yet completed the 

 third letter of the alphabet, it will be seen that the end is 

 still far in the future. The first part was issued in 1865. A 

 new book on "Mineralogy," of a somewhat practical and ele- 

 mentary character, has been published in England : the au- 

 thor is Mr. J. II. Collins, editor of the Mineralogical Maga- 

 zine. 



In this country there has recently appeared a new edition 

 of Dana's "Manual of Mineralogy," an elementary work of 

 about four hundred and fifty pages. The previous edition 

 bears the date of 1857. A new edition of Brush's "Deter- 

 minative Mineralogy " has been published, in which the min- 

 eral formulas have been altered so as to correspond to the 



