Modern Lithology, illustrated and defined, for the use of University, Technical, and Civil-Service Students

Abstract

THE excellent microscopic drawings of rock-sections previously issued by Mr. Adye (see NATURE, vol. lxxi., p. 341), in a work entitled “The Twentieth Century Atlas of Petrography,” prepare us for the present series of sixteen smaller plates. With four coloured figures on each, some of them subdivided into two semicircles, we have a wide range of rocks accurately and artistically represented. The drawing and de scription of thin sections is not strictly “lithology,” however “modern” it may be; but Mr. Adye deals with the illustrations clearly in the accompanying text. He also gives a glossary of petrographic terms, which contains many useful references to original papers. Modern Lithology, illustrated and defined, for the use of University, Technical, and Civil-Service Students. By E. H. Adye. Pp. 128. (Edinburgh and London: W. and A. K. Johnston, Ltd., 1907.) Price 10s. net.