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Twentieth list of new mineral names1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

L. J. Spencer*
Affiliation:
Formerly Keeper of Minerals in the British Museum

Abstract

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Copyright © 1955, The Mineralogical Society

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References

page 727 note 1 Previous lists in this series have been given every three years at the ends of vols. 11-29 (1897-1952) of this Magazine. The present list includes 219 names, bringing the total up to 3153, since the sixth edition (1892) of Dana's ‘System of Mineralogy'. Preferences to ‘Mineralogical Abstracts’ are given in the form [M.A. 12].

page 749 note 1 Only selected names given in the preceding alphabetical list are here included. Following H.A.E. Tutton (Crystallography, 1911, 1922) the crystal systems are indicated as: I triclinic, II monoclinic, Iii orthorhombic, IV tetragonal, V trigonal, VI hexagonal, Vii cubic.