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A System of Mineralogy

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In James D. Dana
…the publication in 1837 of A System of Mineralogy, a work of 580 pages that has persisted through numerous editions.
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standard of mineralogy

In Earth sciences: Crystallography and the classification of minerals and rocks
…American geologist James Dwight Dana’s System of Mineralogy, in its third edition, was reorganized around a chemical classification, which thereafter became standard for handbooks.
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