Abstract
The advance of mineralogy in the past has necessitated repeated divisions of the field. Two centuries ago, before the word geology was coined, mineralogy covered the field now differentiated into geology, palaeontology, inorganic chemistry, economic geology, and petrography. Like a banyan tree mineralogy has sent out new branches which have taken root, and which in turn have themselves become recognized self-supporting portions of the field of earth sciences.
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