A popular guide to minerals : with chapters on the Bement Collection of minerals in the American Museum of Natural History, and the development of mineralogy (1912)
Gratacap, L. P. (Louis Pope), 1851-1917 · New York : D. Van Nostrand · leaf 296
e interior is beautifully shown; the paper and rounded pinkcalcite from Guanajuato, Mexico; the interpenetrating crystals,forming celllike partitions, and coated with quartz, from AnthonysNose, N. Y.; remarkable cabbagelike spheres of enchained rhombo-hedrons from the Yellowstone Park, Wyoming; and… … AMPHIBOLE Pierrepont, New YorkBement Collection, American Museum of Natural History GUIDE TO COLLECTIONS 195 The property of double refraction possessed by a great numberof minerals is especially strong in calcite. It arises from a split-ting up of the ray of light, into two, and as each brings to…
American Museum of Natural History. Bement Collection of Minerals · Mineralogy
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