This book presents the third volume of a complete development of the new structural classification of minerals, which is based on the internal crystal structure, and is therefore its natural classification. Because of the large domain of the mineral kingdom, this work is divided in three volumes, in which the minerals are ordered from the structurally simple to the more complex.

Audience: This work will be of particular interest to teachers and research workers of in mineralogy, and in inorganic crystal structures in academia.

A little gem of a book not a conventional history but rather a collection of data graphically displayed in the form of time-maps. Brief essays trace the histories of the four branches of crystallography and other crystallographic subjects. The bibliography is detailed, and a beautiful section displa