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Mineral collectors made a significant contribution to the development of mineralogy as a science and the rich variety of specimens found in the South West of England enabled Cornish collectors to play a significant part in this process. This volume contains 168 letters selected from the correspondence of three 18th-century Cornishmen - Philip Rashleigh, the Reverend William Gregor, and John Hawkins - with other British and European researchers. It illustrates the motives of collectors and the ways in which improvements in identifying and studying minerals were made.

Mineralogy --- Rashleigh, Philip, --- Hawkins, John, --- Gregor, William, --- Physical geology --- Crystallography --- Minerals --- Mineralogists