Manual of Determinative Mineralogy with an Introduction On Blowpipe Analysis
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Manual of determinative mineralogy. With an introduction on blowpipe analysis. by Samuel L. Penfield
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A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent Discoveries
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A System of Mineralogy. Descriptive Mineralogy ... By J. D. Dana ... aided by George Jarvis Brush ... Fifth edition. Rewritten and enlarged, etc.
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Dana, James Dwight; Brush, George Jarvis;
1868.
xlviii. 827 p. ; 8º.
7106.c.23.
Manual of Determinative Mineralogy: With an Introd. On Blow-Pipe Analysis
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Manual of Determinative Mineralogy: With an Introduction on Blow-Pipe Analysis (Classic Reprint)
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The color of metallic minerals must be observed on a. Fresh fracture, as many of them change and become tarnished and dull on exposure to air and light.
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Manual of determinative mineralogy: by Samuel L. Penfield
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Manual of Determinative Mineralogy: With an Introduction on Blow-Pipe Analysis (Classic Reprint)
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The color of metallic minerals must be observed on a. Fresh fracture, as many of them change and become tarnished and dull on exposure to air and light.
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A Sketch Of The Progress Of American Mineralogy: An Address Delivered Before The American Association For The Advancement Of Science, At Montreal, August 23, 1882
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George Jarvis Brush was an American mineralogist and executive. He is remembered as an academic administrator who spent most of his career at Yale University in the Sheffield Scientific School.
Background
George Jarvis Brush was the son of Jarvis Brush and his wife, Sarah (Keeler) Brush, was born on December 15, 1831 in Brooklyn, New York, being the seventh in line of descent from Thomas Brush who settled in Southold, Long Island, in 1653, and who is believed to have been the first of the family in America.
Education
At the time of his son's birth, Jarvis Brush was in business as a commission and importing merchant, but in 1835 he retired and moved to Danbury, Connecticut, where the boy George began his education in private schools.
In 1841 the family returned to Brooklyn, but five years later, when he was fifteen years of age, the boy was sent to the private school of Theodore S. Gold at West Cornwall, Connecticut Aside from being an admirable teacher, Gold was an enthusiast in mineralogy and other of the natural sciences.
Career
It was undoubtedly while here that the boy got his first insight into the studies that were to occupy his future life. Not long after his return from school, however, he took a position with a mercantile house where he remained some two years, only occasionally indulging in mineralogical excursions.
Ill health forced him to give up this position, and he decided to try farming. With this in view, he went to New Haven in 1848 to attend lectures in practical chemistry and agriculture under J. P. Norton and Benjamin Silliman.
In October 1850 he left New Haven for Louisville, Kentucky, to become an assistant to Benjamin Silliman, Jr. , who was instructor in chemistry and toxicology in the medical department of the University of Louisville. This position he held until the spring of 1852, though in the meantime making a trip to Europe in company with the elder Silliman. Notwithstanding these absences from New Haven he was able to pass the necessary examinations and graduate, as a member of the first class, from what was later to become the strong and flourishing Sheffield Scientific School.
The college year of 1852-53 was passed as an assistant in chemistry in the University of Virginia where he was associated with the well-known mineral chemist, J. Lawrence Smith, and with him made a series of mineralogical studies, the results of which were published in 1853-55, under the caption of "A Reëxamination of American Minerals, " in the American Journal of Science.
Becoming convinced of the need of further studies, after spending the summer of 1853 as an assistant in the department of mineralogy in the Crystal Palace at the International Exposition in New York, he went to Germany, passing the years 1853-55 with Liebig, von Kobell and Pettenkofer, and going later to the celebrated mining school at Freiberg, Saxony.
On his return to America in 1855, he was elected professor of metallurgy in the Sheffield Scientific School. To fit himself for his new duties he went once more abroad, studied at the Royal School of Mines in London, and visited the principal mines and smelting works of both Great Britain and the Continent, finally entering upon his duties in New Haven, in January 1857.
In the same year his professorial position was broadened to include mineralogy. Later it was limited to mineralogy only. In 1872 he was made director of the Sheffield Scientific School, holding that position until 1898, when he resigned, though continuing to act as secretary and treasurer of the Sheffield Trustees until 1900, when he was elected president of the board.
Brush died in 1912. The mineral brushite was named in his honor by G. E. Moore.
Brush was an honorary member of the Mineralogical Society of England, a foreign member of the Geological Societies of London and Edinburgh.
Personality
George Jarvis Brush was of medium height, stocky build, and ruddy complexion, with long mustache, according to the fashion of those days. He is stated to have been of a very kindly disposition, although in his earlier days he could occasionally show a sharp temper. It is told of him that when matters were unusually irritating he would go into the room behind his office in the old Scientific School building, and, pulling out a drawer in which he kept his collection, spend some time looking over his specimens. This would serve to comfort and quiet him: the "minerals would not talk back, " and he would shortly recover his normal temper. He was an entertaining talker, with a good sense of humor.
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It is stated by his biographer and collaborator, Prof. E. S. Dana, that Brush's labors in connection with the development of the Sheffield Scientific School showed him to possess the faculty of "quick, sure judgment, firmness of resolution and great energy. "
Connections
In 1864 George Brush was married to Harriet Silliman Trumbull.