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Excerpt from The Growth of a Crystal: Being the Eighteenth Robert Boyle Lecture Delivered Before the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club, on the 20th of May, 1911 I know that the doors of the University are being Opened to all the newer studies, and that many a student spends most of his time in acquiring the useful know ledge that is to equip him for his profession and for the direct purpose of that profession knowledge which is to fit him to become lawyer, doctor, minister, engineer, or teacher; yet an Oxford Professor may always main tain the pursuit of Learning for its own sake and keep this purpose before his students even in their most technical work. Now Mineralogy is one of those sciences Whose prac tical applications are clear; it is necessary to the miner and the engineer; indeed, it sprang from their needs; even Crystallography (that is, the study of Crystals), which has always hitherto, though with little reason, been treated for University purposes as a branch of Mineralogy, has also become part of the necessary equipment of the practical chemist and geologist; but both Sciences are, in their general aspects, very far removed from the turmoil of practical life; it is with these aspects that I would fain deal, and especially in relation to the study of crystals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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