Abstract:
Seventeen short contributions from the Smithsonian's Department of Mineral Sciences from 1969 to 1971 are gathered together in this volume. The scientific and technological subjects treated in these contributions include studies of lunar samples from Apollo 12, meteorites, petrology and volcanology, and descriptive mineralogy, as well as of the history and description of one of the Smithsonian Institution's most important recent acquisitions the Carl Bosch Collection of Minerals and Meteorites.
