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Description of an apparatus for preparing thin-sections of rocks1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

G. F. Herbert Smith
G. F. Herbert Smith*
Affiliation:
Mineral Department of the British Museum
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Early in the year 1912 extensive modifications were introduced in the apparatus for slitting rocks, and for grinding and polishing thin-sections in the Mineral Department of the British Museum, the whole of the alterations and additions being carried out to my designs by Messrs. Plume and Parry, 47 Old Compton Street, London, W. The changes made were chiefly in the means for holding the specimen or section during the operations; much of the actual machinery remained unaltered, and some of it dates back to the initial installation, upwards of forty years ago. It may not, therefore, be without interest if a brief description of the history of the installation be included with the description of the present apparatus.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 16 , Issue 77 , July 1913 , pp. 317 - 325
Copyright
Copyright © 1913, The Mineralogical Society

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page 317 note 2 I much regret to state that Mr. J. A. Plume, the head of the firm, under whose personal supervision the apparatus was constructed, died suddenly on February 15, 1918.

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