Review of Philiips’s Mineralogy. 45 
Some species that were already abundantly supplied with 
names have been here supplied anew. Thus Copper pyrites, 
called also Chalcopyrite by Haidinger, passes under the new 
name Towanite. No reason is given for the change. Chaleo- 
lite (or Lime-Uranite) is named Torberite. Uranite (or Copper- 
Uranite) is Autunite. Atacamite or chlorid of copper appears as 
Remolinite; Azurite or Blue Malachite as Chessylite. These 
will suffice as examples. 
Again, some German names are adopted in their German dress, 
and look queer enough in an English work. Such are Antimon- 
silber, in place of Antimonsilver, or Antimonial Silver ; Kupfer- 
nickel, instead of Copper-Nickel, the thing in plain English. 
ames consisting of two words are repudiated by some mineral- 
ogists, and various are the shifts to avoid them :—just the reverse 
of the fact in other branches of Natural Science. Hence it is, 
apparently, that the word Kupfernickel, in which the two parts 
can be written together without a hyphen, is deemed preferable 
to Copper-nickel. It is probably on the same principle that Red 
Zine Ore must give way, according to our authors, for Sparta- 
lite ; and Copper Glance (from the German Kupferglanz) or Vit- 
reous Copper, for Redruthite, a name, by the way, proposed by 
Nicol in his reeent valuable work, although not so acknowl- 
edged in this edition of Phillips. So Magnetic Pyrites is made 
to yield to Pyrrhotine ; Spathic Iron to Chalybite ; Schiller Spar 
to Bastite; Specular Iron to Hematite, a word of most ambigu- 
OUS signification in the science. For ourselves, we see no reason 
for this abhorrence of such names. 
Hisennickelkies is another example of a foreign name accepted 
by our authors; and how is it better than iron-nickel-pyrites, 
Which it signifies? or Porzellanspath than Porcelain-spar, a 
name already in use? Let the reader examine these words and 
prononnee each syllable considerately, and then judge how far 
Sclence, sense, or taste, is benefitted by retaining in an English 
the German orthography. Quite as good reason might 
be found, for a general substitution in Britain of the German 
the English language. So also Feuerblende (p. 216); which 
Ne mineralogist, without a knowledge of German, would be 
likely to pronounce F'ewerblende, while Freblende represents 
closely, in fact, its pronunciation as well as meaning. Even 
Py rites has lost an s, (after Haidinger,) and it stands Pyrite, a 
name hardly distinguishable from Pyrrhite, the designation of 
another Species. The whims of authors thus tend to keep the 
synonymy of: Mineralogy in a state of constant ferment. 
_ The work of Messrs. Brooke and Miller has also its deficien- 
cles. We should at least expect to find a full list of known spe- 
tiles and known varieties, and also of current synonyms. T 
deficiency in the latter might be extensively illustrated. Thus 
