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Rocks Classified and Described, A Treatise on Lithology. By Bernard Von Cotta. An English Edition. By Philip Henry Lawrence. Revised by the Author. 8vo. pp. 425. 1866. London: Longmans, Green & Co

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page 422 note 1 A Glossary of Mineralogy. ByBristow, H. W., F.G.S., Senior officer of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, 1861.8vo. pp. 466. (Arranged alphabetically, with numerous woodcuts.) London: Longmans, Green, and Reader.Google Scholar

page 423 note 1 DrCotta's, adoption of the fonnula Si 03 for Quartz brings it no nearer to Corundum, which is a sesquioxide; the modern school of chemists seem to consider Silicon either di-atomic or tetra-atomic.Google Scholar