CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 



INTRODUCTION. 



. 1. Nature * . . \ 



. 2. Natural History . . .1 



. 3. Natural-Historical Properties . 2 



. 4. Natural Productions . . .3 



. - 5. Design of Natural History . . 3 



. 6. Individuals . . .4 



. 7. Organic and Inorganic Natural Productions 5 



. 8. Animals and Plants . . 6 



. 9. Minerals . . . .6 



. 10. Natural Kingdoms . . 7 



. 11. Division of Natural History . . 7 



. 12. Principal Heads of Natural History . 8 



. 13. Terminology . . .9 



. 14. Theory of the System . . 10 



. 15. Nomenclature . . .11 



. 16. Characteristic . . . 12 



. 17. Physiography . . .13 



. 18. Idea of Natural History . . 14 

 . 19. Method of studying the Natural History of the Mi- 



neral Kingdom . . .15 



PART I. 

 TERMINOLOGY. 



General Consideration of Minerals. Their distinction into Simple, 

 Compound, and Mixed. Division of their Natural-Historical 

 Properties. 



. 20. Power of Crystallisation, and its Products 19 



.21. Minerals decomposed and imperfectly formed 20 



