Mineralogy
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Lectures and Syllabus, 1882-1897
Series
Identifier: Coll-99/1
Scope and Contents
The lectures and syllabus series consists of:
- examination papers
- lecture notes
- syllabus
Dates:
1882-1897
Lectures in Mineralogy, c1895
Item
Identifier: Coll-99/1/1
Scope and Contents
Lectures given by James Geikie on mineralogy, covering areas including the form of minerals (crystals), their characteristics depending on light (colour, pleochromism, play of colours, iridescence, lustre, transparency, refraction, phosphorescence), characters depending on state of aggregation (hardness, tenacity, fracture), other characteristics (taste, odour, feel, electricity, magnetism, specific gravity) and their origins (solution, fusion, sublimation).
Dates:
c1895