Manual of Mineralogy and Lithology, 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 |
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| Title | Manual of Mineralogy and Lithology, 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 |
| Author | James Dwight Dana |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | J. Wiley & sons, 1882 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 30 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 474 pages |
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