Microscopical Physiography of the Rock-making Minerals: an aid to the microscopical study of rocks ... Translated and abridged ... by J. P. Iddings. Illustrated, etc

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MINERALOGY AND MINING. Mine Accidents — Ventilation — Ore Dressing, Etc. DESCRIPTIVE MINERALOGY. DANA Comprising tbe most recent Discoveries. Fifth edition. Almost entirely re-written and greatly enlarged. Containing nearly 900 pages 8vo. and upwards of 600 wood engravings. By Prof. J. D. Dana, aided by Prof. Geo. J. Brush. Including Appendices by Profs. Brush and E. S. Dana, completing the work up to 1882 8vo, cloth. $10 00 ** We have used a good many works on Mineralogy, but have met with none that begin to compare with this in fullness of plan, detail, and execution." — American Journal of Mining. THIRD

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TC DITTO. DANA. Bringing the work down to 1882. By E.S. Dana. 8 vo, limp cloth, 1 50 APPENDICES TO DESCRIPTIVE MINERALOGY, FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD. BRUSH. Completing the work to 1882. By Prof. Geo. J. Brush and DANA. E. S. Dana Svo, limp cloth. 2 00 MANUAL OP MINERALOGY AND PETROGRAPHY. DANA . Containing the Elements of the Science of Minerals and Rocks, for the use of the Practical Mineralogist and Geologist, and for Instruction in Schools and Colleges. By Jas. D. Dana, LL.D. Fourth edition. Revised throughout and enlarged. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts. 1887 12mo, cloth, 2 00 *■* The pre-ent issue is the 15th of the revised edition, the sale having reached nearly 1...000 copies. This is conclusive evidence of its value as a text-book, and for practical purposes." A TEXT-BOOK OF MINERALOGY.

DANA. Based upon the System of Mineralogy of Prof. J. D. Dana. Embracing an extended Treatise on Crystallography and Physical Mineralogy. By Edw. S. Dana, Curator of Mineralogy, Yale College. With upwards of 800 woodcuts and one colored plate. Revised and enlarged edition. 1883. 8vo, cloth, 3 60 MANUAL OF DETERMINATIVE MINERALOGY. BRUSII. With an Introduction on Blow-Pipe Analysis, (constituting DANA. the Determinative Part of Dana's Mineralogy). By Prof. Geo. J. Brush. Third edition, translated into the new system. 8vo, cloth, 3 50 INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF ROCK-FORMING MINERALS. HtTSSAK. By Dr. Eugen Hussak, Privat Doceat in the University of SMITH. Grau. Translated from the German by Erastus G. Smith. Prof. of Chemistry and Mineralogy, Beloit College. With 103 plates 8vo, cloth, 2 00 A MANUAL OF LITHOLOGY.

WILLIAMS. A practical work, intended to enable the student to classify at sight the more common species. By K.dward H. Williams, Jr., Professor of Mining Engineering at Lehigh University, Pa 18mo, cloth, 1 2"> A CATALOGUE OF MINERALS, CHESTER. Alphabetically arranged, witli their Chemical Composition and Synonyms. By Prof. A. H. Chester, Hamilton College. 8vo, cloth, 1 COMSTOCK LODE; ITS FORMATION AND HIS- TORY. CHURCH. Illustrated with six plates and thirteen figures. By Prof. John A. Church, EM., Ph.D , 4to, cloth, $5 00 THE COAL-MINES OF THE WESTERN COAST OF THE UNITED STATES. GOODYEAR. By W. A. Goodyear 12mo, cloth, 2 50 THE PRACTICE OF ORE DRESSING IN EUROPE, KUNHARDT. By W. B. Kunhardt, Mining Engineer Svo, cloth, 1 50 ACCIDENTS IN MINES, SAWYER. Arising from the Falls of Roofs and Slides.

Their Causes and the Means of Diminishing their Frequency, with Detailed Sections of Workable Seams and an Account of the System of Timbering in vogue in Staffordshire Coal-field, and Applicable elBewhere. By Arthur R. Sawyer, of the Royal School of Mines, and one of H. M. Inspectors of Mines. With over 300 figures of illustrations, partly printed in colors. 8vo, cloth, 7 00 " This book should be in the possession of every person connected with the mining of coal." — Mining Herald. " This book should be not only interesting to miners, but be found prolific of valuable treats and advice."— Engineering News. PRACTICAL MINE VENTILATION. WILSON. For tlie Use of Mining Engineers, Students, and Practical. Men. With plates. By Eugene B. Wilson, M.E...16mo, cloth, 1 25 " It is the best book in the English language on the subject."— Thos. Davis, Derringer, Pa.

" We recommend it heartily to our mining community."— Colliery Guardian, London. RESOURCES OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. BOYD. A book not only for the general reader, but for Geologists, Mineralogists, Engineers, and Scientists, written in a popular style, and particularly suited to citizens of Virginia. By C. R. Boyd, M.E. Illustrated bya fine topographical, geological, and geographical map, plates, etc 8vo, cloth, 3 00 DITTO. Third edition, on lighter paper 8vo, cloth, 2 50 THE MODERN HIGH EXPLOSIVES— NITRO-GLYC- ERINE AND DYNAMITE. EISSLER. Their Manufacture, iheir Use, and their Application to Mining and Military Engineering ; Pyroxyline or Gun Cotton, the Fulminates, Picrates, and Chlorates; also, the Chemistry and Analysis of the Elementary Bodies which enter into the Manufacture of the principal Nitro-Compounds.

By Manuel Eissler, Mining Engineer. With many illustrative plates. Svo, cloth, 4 00 " This volume supplies to the engineer, contractor, and the chemist precisely what they previously needed with regard to the explosive forces which they may be called upon either to supply or use." — Mining Uncord. EXPLOSIVE COMPOUNDS AND ROCK DRILLS. DRINKER. Giving properties of Modern Explosives, Principles of Blasting, and descriptions and uses of tbe various Rock Drill-- and Compressors, and forming a SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME to the first edition of DRINKER'S TUNNELING. 4to, cloth, 5 00 PUBLISHED AND FOR SALE BT JOHN WILEY & SONS, Astor Place, New York. *** Will be prepaid by moil on the receipt of the price. MICROSCOPICAL PHYSIOGRAPHY OF THE ROCK-MAKING MINERALS AN AID TO THE MICROSCOPICAL STUDY OF ROCKS.

BY H. EOSENBUSCH. TRANSLATED AND ABRIDGED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES l:\ JOSEPH P. IDDINGS. JHlustratcj bg 121 8ffioo&=cuts anB 26 $l&trs of UjjotomurosrapfiB. NEW YORK : JOHN WILEY & SONS. 15 Astor Place. 1888. LONDON - TROBNER A OO. Copyright. 1888 By JOHN WILEY & SONS. Drummond & *.^Ij. Electrotypers, I to 7 Hague Street, New York. Ferris Bros., Printers, 326 Pearl Street, New York. TRANSLATOR'S