Excerpt from Popular Science News, Vol. 36: Formerly Boston Journal of Chemistry; A Popular Illustrated Monthly Devoted to the Progress in Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Archaeology, Hygiene, Invention, With Related Physical Sciences and General Scientific Information; January-December, 1902 This is the latest, best and most compact list extant. The author is a competent mineralogist. The booklet is confidently recommend ed to all who are interested. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.