Review of A system of mineralogy, by James D. Dana / [Benjamin Silliman].

  • Silliman, Benjamin, 1816-1885.
Date:
1844
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    instances, given in our remarks on Classification, illustrate the fact that the natural system is founded actually on chemical prin¬ ciples.”—Preface. On this side the water, the numerous geolo¬ gical and mineralogical surveys which have been commenced or brought to a close, have done much to diffuse a taste for such studies among the mass of the people, and to awaken a spirit of inquiry, which, under the direction of the eminent gentlemen charged with the several parts of the work, has developed to a good degree our mineralogical resources. “Sources of informa¬ tion have thus been laid open for making a thorough American work on Mineralogy ; and it has been the endeavor of the author to avail himself fully of these various aids, to render, if possible, the present treatise deserving of this title.” Many new species have been added to our former lists, and doubtless many propos¬ ed which are not new. Many old ones have been made to co¬ alesce with others previously established,* while old names that had been discarded are again brought into use.f The following catalogue contains the more interesting of the new foreign species added to this edition of Mr. Dana’s tre Apatelite. Beaumontite, (crenate Greenovite. Potash copperas. of copper.) Perowskite. Soda copperas. Bromic silver. CErstedite. Oxalate of lime. Iodic mercury. Mosandrite. Pissophane. Rosite. Wohlerite. Leucophane. Hydrargillite. Euxenite. Magnesian pharmaco- Gigantolite. Uranotantalite. lite. Villarsite. Heteroclin. Bromlite. Lepidomelane. Anthosiderite. Romeine. Hydrous mica. Wehrlite. Antimonophyllite. Ryacolite. Irite. Nussierite. Andesine. Placodine. Selenate of lead. Oligoclase. Xanthokon. Volborthite. Periclase. Zinkenite. Delevauxene. Rhodizite. Geocronite. * ‘‘ Among the species that have disappeared, the following are the most impor¬ tant: Comptonite, united with Thomsonite; Biotine, with Anorthite ; Elaeolite, Davyne, Cancrinite, and Gieseckite, with Nepheline; Mellilite, with Humboldti- lite; Junkerite, with common Spathic Iron ; Levyne, Gmelinite, and Phacolite, with Chabazite; and Gismondine, including Aricite and Zeagonite, with Phillips- ite.”—Preface. t The celebrated works of Von Kobell and Rammelsberg, and the new edition of Mohs’s System, have also been published since 1837.