1929 Meteorites, Gems, Minerals, color plates pics book

Smithsonian Scientific Series

Volume 3

Part I The Story of Meteorites

Part II Gems and Gem Minerals

Title	Smithsonian Scientific Series, Volume 3
Author	George P. Merrill & William F. Foshag
Publisher	1929 by Smithsonian Institution
Size	6.25" x 9.5" - 331 pages
Description	Hardcover - This 79 year old volume includes full page plates throughout, printed on glossy paper (listed below). Most of the illustrations are black & white, however there are a few in color. The entire illustrations list is below. Table of Contents Part I The Story Of Meteorites Introductory And Historical Phenomena Incidental To Fall Areas Of Distribution Number, Size, And Form Composition And Structure Names And Classification Whence Do They Come? Early Uses Of Meteoric Iron Bibliography Appendix I: Classification Of Meteorites Appendix II: List Of Meteorites Seen To Fall Part II Gems And Gem Minerals Introduction Crystals And Their Growth Properties Of Minerals Kinds And Occurrences Of Gem Minerals Synthetic Gems Collections And Collectors Cutting Of Gems Gems Mentioned In The Bible Bibliography Index Illustrations LIST OF PLATES PART I A falling meteorite Looking into “empty space” Fall of a meteorite in a field Meteoric stone, New Concord, Ohio Small stones of Holbrook, Arizona, meteorite Meteoric stone, Allegan, Michigan Meteoric iron, Mazapil, Mexico Meteor Crater, Arizona Portrait of E. F. F. Chladni Diagram of earth and sun View of a portion of the moon’s surface Fall of a meteorite at Montpreis, Styria Meteoric iron, Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico The Cape York meteoric iron The Willamette meteoric iron The Bacubirito, Sinaloa, Mexico, meteoric iron Iron meteorite, Owens Valley, California Polished slice of Cumberland Falls, Kentucky, meteoric stone Etched surface of slice from Casas Grandes meteoric iron Polished surface from fragment of Admire, Kansas, pallasite; granular and hexahedral structure of meteoric irons Microsections of meteorites Polished slice from Mount Vernon, Kentucky, pallasite Microsections of meteorites Microsections of meteorites Chondrules and chondritic structure Five views of chondrules as shown in thin sections (1) Chondrule in the Parnallee meteoric stone; (2) feldspar in the Estherville meteorite (1 and 2) Toluca meteoric iron before and after heating; (3) polished surface of Cumberland Falls meteoric stone. Portraits of F. Berwerth, J. L. Smith, H. C. Sorby, and C. U. Shepard Portraits of S. Meunier, A. Daubree, G. Tschermak, and D. Olmsted Portraits of H. A. Newton and Norman Lockyer Biela’s comet before and after division The Tucson, Arizona, meteoric iron The Baldwyn, Mississippi, meteoric stone The Bath Furnace, Kentucky, meteoric stone Fragment from Ensisheim meteoric stone The Felix, Alabama, meteoric stone The Fisher, Polk County, Minnesota, meteoric stone The Gopalpur, India, meteoric stone The Hessle, Sweden, meteoric stone The Kilbourn, Wisconsin, meteoric stone One individual of the Modoc, Kansas, meteoric stone Two views of the N’Gourema, Africa, meteoric iron PART II Characteristic forms of crystals Quartz with inclusions of rutile, “Thetis hair stone,” and a crystal of quartz Kimberley mine, Kimberley, South Africa Trenches in diamond-bearing peridotite, Pike County, Arkansas Uncut diamonds, Arkansas Glacial map of the Great Lakes region Sapphire mining, Palmadulla, Ceylon Sapphire mining, Judith Basin County, Montana Beryl and emerald crystals Beads of citrine and rose quartz Characteristic forms of agate Landscape or “moss” agates Beads and cut stones of silicified wood, Fossil Forest, Arizona Opal diggings, Virgin Valley, Nevada Tourmaline. Crystals from Mesa Grande, California, and cross section from Madagascar Tourmaline-feldspar mine, Auburn, Maine Group of tourmaline crystals, Mesa Grande, California — Roebling collection Tourmaline mine, Mesa Grande, California Five cut gems from Isaac Lea and Roebling collections Spodumene crystal, variety Kunzite Chinese Han disk of Jade Variscite, Lewiston, Utah, and turquoise in matrix, Los Cerrillos, New Mexico Turquoise mine, near Los Cerrillos, New Mexico Amazonstone and smoky quartz, Pikes Peak, Colorado Titanite (sphene) Semi-precious stones Malachite and azurite, Bisbee, Arizona Iceland spar, illustrating double refraction Semi-precious stones Portrait of James Smithson Portraits of C. S. Bement, W. S. Vaux, George Vaux, and Isaac Lea Portraits of Washington A. Roebling, F. A. Canfield, George F. Kunz, and W. S. Disbrow LIST OF TEXT FIGURES PART I Fall of meteorite at Ensisheim, Germany Area of distribution of Canyon Diablo meteorite Fall of meteorite at Knyahinya, Hungary The afterglow of meteorites Areal distribution of Homestead, Iowa, fall Diamond crystal out of Canyon Diablo meteorite Diagrams of an iron showing Widmanstatten figures PART II Eglestonite crystal with 482 faces Brilliant cut Double brilliant cut Half brilliant cut Trap brilliant cut Portuguese cut Star cut Rose cut Trap or step cut Step brilliant or mixed cut Table cut Cabochon cut
Condition	This is a university ex-library copy, so it has the usual library markings. While the cloth hardcover has some very light rubs and faded spots, the book's binding is strong and the inside pages are complete, clean and unmarked. On a few of the coated plates pages, there are light age spots at the margins and on the facing text page. Otherwise, the inside pages are in excellent condition; no tears, no markings, no odors, no yellowing, etc.

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