Handbook and Descriptive Catalogue of the Collections of Gems and Precious Stones in the United States National Museum
- Author(s): George P. Merrill, Margaret W. Moodey, Edgar Theodore Wherry
- Category: Jewelry
- Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.
- Publish year: 1922
- ISBN: 9678000004802
- Number of Pages: 281
In the annual report of the United States National Museum for 1900 (1902) there was published a descriptive catalogue of the collections of gems in the United States National Museum, as prepared by Mr. Wirt Tassin, then assistant curator in charge of the Division of Mineralogy, assisted by A. S. Eakle, subsequently professor of mineralogy in the University of California. As this catalogue has long been out of print, and as the collection has increased considerably since it appeared, a new edition has been decided upon. In this, however, a different method of treatment has been adopted, and the subject matter has been quite largely rewritten, so that it represents an essentially new work.
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PREFATORY NOTE.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
1. HISTORY AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE COLLECTION.
2. NAMES AND PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF PRECIOUS STONES.
3. DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTIONS.
4. SUPPLEMENTAL COLLECTIONS.
APPENDIX 1. THE CUTTING OF GEM STONES.
APPENDIX 2.GEMS MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE.
APPENDIX 3. MYSTICAL PROPERTIES OF GEMS.
APPENDIX 4. GEM AND MINERAL NAMES.
APPENDIX 5. INDUSTRIAL USES OF PRECIOUS STONES.
APPENDIX 6. TABLES FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF PRECIOUS STONES.
APPENDIX 7. STATISTIOS OF PRODUOTION.
APPENDIX 8. SELEOTED BIBLIOGRAPHY.
INDEX.