Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- I ON THE FORMS OF THE STRATIFIED ALPS OF SAVOY (1863)
- II NOTES ON THE SHAPE AND STRUCTURE OF SOME PARTS OF THE ALPS, WITH REFERENCE TO DENUDATION (1865)
- III ON BANDED AND BRECCIATED CONCRETIONS (1867–1870)
- IV DEUCALION: COLLECTED STUDIES OF THE LAPSE OF WAVES AND LIFE OF STONES (1875–1883)
- V ON THE DISTINCTIONS OF FORM IN SILICA (1884)
- VI CATALOGUES OF MINERALS
- 1 CATALOGUE OF A SERIES OF SPECIMENS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE MORE COMMON FORMS OF NATIVE SILICA (1884)
- 2 CATALOGUE OF MINERALS IN ST. GEORGE'S MUSEUM, SHEFFIELD (1877–1886)
- 3 CATALOGUE OF FAMILIAR MINERALS IN THE MUSEUM OF KIRKCUDBRIGHT (1884)
- 4 CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF SILICEOUS MINERALS GIVEN TO AND ARRANGED FOR ST. DAVID'S SCHOOL, REIGATE, BY JOHN RUSKIN (1883)
- 5 CATALOGUE OF MINERALS PRESENTED TO THE CONISTON INSTITUTE (1884)
- 6 CATALOGUE OF MINERALS SHOWN AT EDINBURGH (1884)
- 7 NOTES ON MINOR COLLECTIONS
- VII THE GRAMMAR OF SILICA (not hitherto published)
- APPENDIX: LETTERS, ADDRESSES, AND NOTES
- INDEX
- Plate section
2 - CATALOGUE OF MINERALS IN ST. GEORGE'S MUSEUM, SHEFFIELD (1877–1886)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- I ON THE FORMS OF THE STRATIFIED ALPS OF SAVOY (1863)
- II NOTES ON THE SHAPE AND STRUCTURE OF SOME PARTS OF THE ALPS, WITH REFERENCE TO DENUDATION (1865)
- III ON BANDED AND BRECCIATED CONCRETIONS (1867–1870)
- IV DEUCALION: COLLECTED STUDIES OF THE LAPSE OF WAVES AND LIFE OF STONES (1875–1883)
- V ON THE DISTINCTIONS OF FORM IN SILICA (1884)
- VI CATALOGUES OF MINERALS
- 1 CATALOGUE OF A SERIES OF SPECIMENS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE MORE COMMON FORMS OF NATIVE SILICA (1884)
- 2 CATALOGUE OF MINERALS IN ST. GEORGE'S MUSEUM, SHEFFIELD (1877–1886)
- 3 CATALOGUE OF FAMILIAR MINERALS IN THE MUSEUM OF KIRKCUDBRIGHT (1884)
- 4 CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF SILICEOUS MINERALS GIVEN TO AND ARRANGED FOR ST. DAVID'S SCHOOL, REIGATE, BY JOHN RUSKIN (1883)
- 5 CATALOGUE OF MINERALS PRESENTED TO THE CONISTON INSTITUTE (1884)
- 6 CATALOGUE OF MINERALS SHOWN AT EDINBURGH (1884)
- 7 NOTES ON MINOR COLLECTIONS
- VII THE GRAMMAR OF SILICA (not hitherto published)
- APPENDIX: LETTERS, ADDRESSES, AND NOTES
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
PREFACE
The student using the following catalogue is generally referred to the eighth chapter of Deucalion for explanation of its method; but a few words are still needed to justify the broken form in which I permit its publication.
The object of all books used in St. George's schools will be simply educational, not scientific. That is to say, they will never be abstract statements of science generally known, but practically explanatory statements of the small portion of science which it is thought desirable that the pupil should know.
And these explanations will always be given in the way which I think likeliest to make the matter clear to a young reader; and not at all in the systematic way which would appear fittest to a person, acquainted with things of which the ordinary student is, and must for ever remain, ignorant.
But more especially, and pointedly, the books used in the schools of St. George will avoid any attempt at scientific classification, because, as I have already explained again and again, in my Oxford lectures, no existing scientific classification can possibly be permanent. The only systems yet of any real value, are those which, founded on easily visible phenomena, enable the young student with least pains to gather for himself the materials of future labour.
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- The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 415 - 456Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1906