Abstract
In recent years, the respective provinces of Mineralogy and Petrography have become much more clearly defined than was formerly the case. We no longer include uncrystallised substances, like obsidian, taehylyto and coals among mineral species; and, on the other hand, we recognise the fact that many materials originally analysed and treated as homogeneous—such as lapis-lazuli, emery, and many similar materials—are really mineral aggregates or rocks, and thus come within the domain of the petrographer. This last advantage has been one of the most important of those which have resulted from the application of the microscope to the study of inorganic bodies.
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