He was soon called to a professorship of geology and mineralogy at Geneva, with a salary of three thousand francs, and also to Lausanne; but he refused both offers.
And this youth of twenty-one was self-taught both in mineralogy and geology!
Indiana, sketch of the geology and mineralogy of, W.
Emmons, Manual ofMineralogy and Geology, notice of, xxiv, 397.
Highlands of New York and New Jersey, geology and mineralogy of, v.
Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, by William Buckland, p.
Other branches of science, apparently quite as alien as anatomy to women's taste and talent, are mineralogy and metallurgy.
One reason why St. Hildegard's writings on botany, zoology and mineralogy are not better known is that few students care to make the effort to master her voluminous works.
But Mineralogy has been superseded lately, by her eldest sister Geology, who, although not so pretty, has been declared more interesting and profound.
Every branch of Natural History had its savant; but, above all, Mineralogy was the most in vogue.
Still Mineralogyis the more scientific, although Geology is the more speculative.
I'm sure mineralogy is not," retorted Prose, throwing down his crowbar from exhaustion.
It was a Latin work, but an English treatise on mineralogy had been bound up with it; and this I began reading, or rather I attempted to read.
He studied mineralogy and botany without an instructor, and graduated in medicine at the university of Pennsylvania in 1844.
He became a teacher of mineralogy and mining in that city, and was afterwards (1761) appointed professor of chemistry and director of the imperial museum at St Petersburg.
The anatomical and pathological laboratories of the university are modern, and the museums of geology and mineralogyhave been restored.
Under the head mineralogy we have given a detailed account of the principal sources of its industry.
Under the head mineralogy we have pointed out how valuable a country this might become under better management.
On the foundation of the Murchison professorship of geology and mineralogy at the university of Edinburgh in 1871, he became the first occupant of the chair.
Another lady who has a taste for mineralogy has unconsciously done good in her own village by means of it.
And she likes, too, to stroll through the woods, or to float in her dory on the river, without a thought of mineralogy or botany while she softly repeats poetry for which she has a real love.
Cronstedt, about the middle of the eighteenth century, may be said to have laid the foundation of systematic mineralogy upon chemical principles, by the publication of his System of Mineralogy.
During these, however, he collected by degrees, in conjunction with his brother Guillaume Antoine, a splendid museum of mineralogy and of natural history in general, which was afterwards increased by his nephew J.
The only branch of natural history, on which the author descants, is mineralogy and geology.
This work, translated from the German, contains much new and valuable information, chiefly on mineralogy and geology.
Martinique and St. Domingo are particularly described, and themineralogy of the latter fully entered into.
Bernouilli, in his travels in Switzerland, has copied Andreæ in what relates to mineralogy and cabinets of natural history; but he has added some interesting descriptions of paintings.
This is a valuable work respecting the mineralogy and geology, and especially the Giant's Causeway.
Observations on the Geology and Mineralogy of the Region embracing the Sources of the Mississippi River, and the Great Lake Basins, during the Expedition of 1820.
In 1721, Charlevoix passed through the lakes on his way to the Gulf of Mexico, and did not allow the mineralogy of the country to escape him.
You will furnish him with the necessary supplies and accommodation while employed, and every facility necessary to enable him to obtain a knowledge of the mineralogy of the country as far as practicable.
SIR: I have received your interesting report on the geology and mineralogy of that section of the western country embraced by the late expedition of Gov.
The results of this trip are sufficiently comprehended in what has already been stated respecting the geology and mineralogy of this prominent peninsula.
If the mineralogy or geology of the country often presented little to note, the scenery, or the atmosphere, or that lone human boulder, the American Indian, did.
Its mineralogyis scanty, being nearly confined, so far as observed, to some common silicious minerals, and traces of argillaceous and magnetic oxides of iron.
Observations on the Mineralogyand Geology of the country embracing the sources of the Mississippi River and the Great Lake Basins.
Its geology and mineralogy will be noticed in my official reports.
Should this object be deemed important, I request that some person acquainted with zoology, botany, and mineralogy may be sent to join me.
Cass, in relation to the copper mines on Lake Superior; reserving, as the subject of a future communication, the facts I have collected on the mineralogy and geology of the country explored generally.
Clarke's observations are perhaps more scientific than those of the Swedish naturalist just named, and particularly in the departments of mineralogy and geology to which he had devoted a large share of his attention.
A similar feeling prevails respecting precious stones,--the branch of mineralogy which first gains the attention of a rude people.
Uni-or bin-elementary terrestrial bodies are minerals or earths; their development is Mineralogy in the general sense of that term.
This has imparted to the recent science of Mineralogy its present aspect or form.
Mineralogy teaches us the development of the earth-element.
When we survey the science of Mineralogy we remark that most minerals are composed of several earths; with them also metals, coal, sulphur, alkalies and acids are frequently associated.
In Chemistry the stress lies in explaining a peculiar kind of force, called chemical force; in Mineralogy the stress is laid on the description and classification of a select group of natural objects.
In point of outward form, Mineralogy and Zoology are kindred subjects.
For example, Chemistry is a primary, fundamental, or abstract science; and Mineralogy is a derivative and concrete science.
There is no more reason for coupling Zoology with Physiology, than for tacking onMineralogy to Chemistry.
Consulting Mining Engineer, Honorary Fellow of King's College, London, Lecturer onMineralogy and Geology at the H.
Manual of theMineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland.
This word was adopted in mineralogy by Linnæus, in the year 1736, as the name of a species, in which he comprehended for the first time the alkaline incrustation found on walls.
This work contains valuable information in regard to the mineralogy of the ancients.
To those who know how deficient the ancients were in the knowledge of salts, and of mineralogy in general, this assertion will without further proof appear highly probable[489].
He is best known by his scientific pursuits, particularly in mineralogyand geology, upon which subjects he published valuable treatises.
He wrote upon medicine, mineralogy and geology, and furnished one of the best of the Bridgewater treatises.
He was very successful in diffusing among the young a love for the study of mineralogy and geology.
He published works on botany and chemistry, and one on the mineralogy of New York.
Mineralogy is much indebted to Mr Pallas for the valuable observations which he has given of countries so distant from the habitations of learned men.
The misfortune is, they reason no farther; they have explained mineralogy by infiltration; and they content themselves with viewing the beautiful specimens in their cabinet, the supposed product of solution and crystalization.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mineralogy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
