Mineral Library – Looking out for my books
Leo Chapman, 1980, Diamonds in Australia. The Fields and the Prospectors. Softcover. 190 pages. Published around the time that the Argyle diamond field was being discovered. It is a good reference work on the history of diamond discovery worldwide, but there is little on Australia, apart from a list of […]
Archibald Liversidge, 1888, The Minerals of New South Wales, etc. Hardback. 326 pages. Olive-green cloth with gilt letters. The classic and early census of the minerals of New South Wales.
F. B. Kyngdon and Prof. Warren (Hon Secretaries), 1891, Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales for 1890. Hardback. Green leather with gild letters. Journal 290 pages. Interesting content: C. W. Marsh, Geological Notes on the Barrier Ranges Silverfield, pages 177-195. T. W. Edgeworth David, The […]
W. Baldwin Spencer (Ed.), 1890, Report of the Second Meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. Hardback. 757 pages plus reports and appendix. Green cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine. 220mm tall. Interesting content: Mineral Census of Australasia, Report of Committee No. 7, pages 205-282. Report […]