J.D. Dana on System in Mineralogical Nomenclature. 147 
after its investigator, the chemist Torber Bergmann (more. correctly 
written Torbernite by some mineralogists of last century, as Bergmann, 
wrote his name in Latin, the language of his scientifle works, Torbernus 
Bergmann). The name encountered objections; and Werner, in view of 
tgmann’s announcement (after some incorrect trials) that the mineral 
u 
her's Verbesserungen in der Mineralogie,” etc., (64 pp. 16mo, 1790), in 
rs 
* <0). Such names were, however, too easily made, too pleasant, as a 
Seneral thing, to give and receive, and withal too free from real objection, 
e numerous, even Vi- 
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ation. 
8 a part of the history of mineralogical nomenclature, it may be here 
: -. chaleols 
these have sinc ‘such as 
Quartz, Blende, Hornblende, Talc, Feldspar, Schor!, Mispickel, 
Kupferwasser of the Germans, like Couperose 
* The German word Kupferwasser, literall signifying Copper-water, (the Chal- 
and Atramentum Lipo of Pliny,) fosiudid the different vitriols, whether 
, which are a common result of the alteration of copper 
blende, Both the copper and iron pyrites passed for co 
der miners from the Greeks down, ions they occur mixed together 
= hati 
Posed t from the Latin cuprirosa. Bu g 
i is hardly + pomability ag geet Latin u should in another case, Or 
hanged to the French ou instead of the sharp 4; while the 
take this form. 
