1. The nature of the crystalline state -- 2. Methods of projection -- 3. The description of crystals -- 4. A general study of the seven crystal systems -- 5. Goniometry -- 6. The thirty-two classes -- 7. Parallel growth and composite crystals -- 8. Some mathematical relationships -- 9. Crystal drawings -- 10. The symmetry of internal structure -- 11. Space groups -- 12. Diffraction of x-rays by crystals -- 13. Crystal habit
Scotland ; The Horticultural Society ; United States and Upper Canada ; First Great Adventure ; Columbia River Region ; With Chief Tha-a-muxi ; Up the Columbia to Kettle Falls ; The Blue Mountains ; In Search of the Sugar Pine ; Homeward by Hudson's Bay Express ; Putting Mountains on the Map ; Fame and its Aftermath ; Second Great Adventure ; California ; Third Visit to the Columbia ; Ill-Fated Journey ; Flakes of Gold ; Hawaii and its Volcanoes ; Last Journey ; In Tribute
A parade of fascinating personalities -- intellectuals, artists, travelers and explorers -- moves through this rich and colorful book of biographical essays by the author of Makers and Finders. --From dust cover
Contents
Fenollosa and His Circle ; Fanny Wright ; John Lloyd Stephens ; George Catlin ; Charles Wilkes ; Charles Godfrey Leland ; Anecdotes of Maurice Prendergast ; Randolph Bourne
1. Introduction -- 2. Concepts of stress and strain -- 3. Theory and rock failure -- fracture -- 4. Faults -- 5. Behavior of materials -- 6. Folds and folding -- 7. Clevage, mullion, rodding, kinks, and boudinage -- 8. Primary sedimentary structures -- 9. Structures in unconsolidated sediment and salt -- 10. Earth's interior and major crustal elements -- 11. The North American continental craton and its stable margin -- 12. A case study of an orogenic belt -- the Alps -- 13. Anatomy of a folded mountain belt -- the Appalachians -- 14. Structural features of the North American cordillera -- 15. Sturctural features of the ocean basins -- 16. Examples of modern diatrophism -- 17. Tectonic syntheses
In this book Donald W. Buchanan recreates the flavour of the Canada of his youth, matching a nostalgic text with his own photographs of evocative scenes from the ranches of Happy Valley, Alberta, to Kamouraska County in Quebec. -- From the publisher
Angling equipment -- Methods of fishing -- Fresh water fishing -- Ocean fishing -- The sporting rifle -- Learning to shoot -- Methods of hunting -- The deer family -- Elk, antelope, sheep, bear -- Hunting small game -- The shotgun -- American waterfowl -- Our upland birds -- Mastering the handgun -- Your gun dog -- The sportsman's boat -- Camping and woodcraft -- Camp recipies.
This is a comprehensive classics language guide, Greek and Latin, aimed at students in the medical field, which explains the use of Latin in the English language from the alphabet to chemical suffixes.
Contents
The Greek and Latin alphabets -- Formation of English words -- General scientific vocabularies -- Latin forms and Latin grammar in scientific nomenclature -- Medical and pathological terminology -- Bacteriological nomenclature -- pharmaceutical terminology -- Biological terms -- The Linnaean system of biological nomenclature -- The reading and writing of Latin descriptions
Notes
The authors dedication to his wife is of interest from a women's rights perspective; it reads "...and to a fourth E S H who would have become a scientist had she not become my wife.", note this was published December of 1960.