148 J.D: Dana on System in Mineralogical Nomenclature. 
tion as far as it was ascertained; and the two methods have had 
their advocates till late in the present century. But, at the 
same time, the necessity of single names was recognized by most 
of the early mineralogists ; and in the spirit of the system which 
had made its appearance among the Greeks and Romans out of 
the genius of the Greek language, they almost uniformly adopt 
or the new names the termination ie. 
Thus we have from Werner the names Torberite, Chalcolite, 
Graphite, Prehnite, Witherite, Boracite, Augite, Pistacite, Pinite, 
Aragonite, Apatite, Leucite, Cyanite (Kyanite) ; and from other 
sources in the same century, Zeolite, Actinolite, Tremolite, Coc- 
colite, Arendalite, Baikalite, Melanite, Staurolite, Lepidolite, ) 
Cryolite, Chiastolite, Collyrite, Agalmatolite, Sommite, Moroxite, 
Pharmacolite, Strontianite, Delphinite, Titanite, Ceylanite, Ga ff 
dolinite, Rubellite, Sahlite, Wernerite, Scapolite, Mellite, ete. 
e termination zine, was also adopted for a few names, as Tout- 
maline, Olivine, Mascagnine, Serpentine; and an in Vesuvian; 
but the great bulk of the names were systematically terminated 
in te. : 
With the opening of the present century (in 1801), Hatiy came 
forward with his great work on Crystallography, and in it he 
brought out a variety of new names that defy all system, having 
nothing of the system of the earlier science, and no substituteof =| 
his own. Forgetting that the unity of law which he had found 
in nature should be a feature of scientific language, he gave | 
names to minerals as a gardener might to his varieties of pik = | 
- 
ane, in Cymophan ig 
Puan; . 
ase, in Kuclase, Idocrase, Anatase, Dioptase ; 
we, cime ; 
ole, in Amphibole : 
U 
ome, in Aplome, Harmotome ; 
10. j . 
ose, in Urthose ; 
ote, In Actinote, Epidote ; 
yre, in Dipyre; 
a these 
And the true 
the few ft 
matite. oe 
Haiiy had commanded so great and so general admiratio® 
¥ 
by his brilliant discoveries in crystallography, and by the bet® 
fits which he had thus conferred. on oes Ma ‘spidael that 
Me a ineralogical termination ite he admitted only 2 ; : 
ollowing : Axinite, Meionite, Pyenite, Stilbite, Gram | 
