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nal Characters of Minerals. This work was translated into 

 French, and published at Paris in 1790, by the translator of the 

 Memoires de Chimie de Scheele (Mlbe. Picardet). 



In 1780, he pubHshed at Leipzig a Translation of Cronstedt's 

 Essay on Mineralogy from the Swedish, with Notes, and an 

 Account of the External Characters of Minerals. 



In 1791 and 1792, he pubHshed A Full and Systematic Cata- 

 logue of the Cabinet of Mr. R. E. Pabst, of Chain, which he 

 drew up, and edited in two volumes. This is, to appearance, 

 the description of the cabinet of a private individual, but its 

 contents prove that Werner took this opportunity to describe 

 how a collection ought to be arranged and described. Pabst, 

 of Chain, was an amateur naturahst, who, from holding an offi- 

 cial situation under the Saxon government, possessed opportuni- 

 ties of collecting the rarest and most curious mineral specimens. 

 After his death, his heirs, in 1786, wished to give this collection 

 a permanent value, and proposed that Werner should undertake 

 its arrangement and description. In completing this work, 

 Werner followed the arrangement in use in describing a cabinet 

 of natural history ; and as he spared no pains in giving an elabo- 

 rate account of the collection, he composed a work calculated to 

 be of the utmost senice to science. The Journal des Mines, 

 vol, ii. chap. 91, p. 73, gives a copious summary of this work. 



At Dresden, 1787, he pubhshed A short Classification and 

 Description of Mountains. 



At Freiberg, in 1791, he published The New Theory of the 

 Formation of Veins, with Remarks on the Formation of Moun- 

 tains, particularly those in the Neighbourhood of Freiberg. 

 Translated into French, mth notes, by D'Aubuisson. Paris, 

 1802. 



In the Miner's Journal, he published An Essay on the Basaltic 

 Formations of Scheibenberger Hill, together with the controver- 

 sial Correspondence with Mr. Voight on this Subject. A History 

 of the Characters and a Chemical Investigation of Apatite. 

 Vorkommendes Basaltes auf Kupper, vorzugtich hoher berge. 

 Remarks on Evermain's Description of a Basaltic Mountain, 

 called King Arthur's Seat, near Edinburgh ; and its close Resem- 

 blance to Scheibenberger Hill. Notes upon a Letter of Widen- 

 inan's, relative to some Hungarian Fossils. Remarks on aLetter of 

 the Chevalier Napione relative to the Tuberg Iron Mountain, 

 Description of the External Character of Prehnite, with some 

 Observations upon the Name which it has received, and addi- 

 tional Remarks upon the System of naming Objects in Natural 

 History from Individuals. Description of the External Charac- 

 ters of Kyanite. Description of the External Characters of 

 Olivin, Chrysolite, Beryl, and Chrysoberyl, with some additional 

 Remarks on the Gradations of the First. Remarks on the Traps 

 of Sweden, with some Observations on the Origin and Applica- 

 tion of this Term, and what may probably be its future Fate, 



