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BOARD OF EDUCATION, SOUTH KENSINGTON,
VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM.


PRECIOUS STONES

CONSIDERED IN THEIR SCIENTIFIC AND
ARTISTIC RELATIONS

WITH A CATALOGUE OF THE TOWNSHEND COLLECTION


by

A. H. CHURCH, F.R.S.,
M.A., D.Sc., F.S.A.,
Professor of Chemistry in the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

NEW EDITION.


LONDON:
PRINTED FOR HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE,
By WYMAN & SONS, LIMITED, Fetter Lane, E.C.


1905.

Price 1s. 6d.; in Cloth, 2s. 3d.