The Growth of a Crystal Being the Eighteenth Robert Boyle Lecture Delivered Be
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BARKER ; so that, though I only have to deal with ideas that are simple compared with those which issued with fiery vigour from the fertile brain of the BOYLE Lecturer of 1893, I have a 1 It is with the deepest regret that I add that my old friend and revered teacher died on the very day on which these words were spoken. H. A. M. 10 THE GROWTH OF A CRYSTAL better opportunity of showing to an Oxford audience to-day the actual things of which I am speaking, and may help to make my meaning clear t...o those who cannot know much from personal experience concerning the growth of crystals. 1 When I delivered my own inaugural lecture I had no means of making visible to an audience the astonishing features of crystal growth. Beautiful effects may easily be witnessed by anyone with a few drops of common solution and a magnifying glass, yet I believe that they are witnessed by comparatively few persons. ^^^^_ ^ ^ I have alluded to raws of crystalline structure, to which LORD KELVIN had directed attention : these are the laws^ of geometrical arrangement which prove crystals to be constructed in an entirely different manner from the living plants which they may so closely re- semble; these laws, however, were not established by observations or experiments upon the growth of crystals.
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