1. The Chemistry of minerals 2. Physical properties of minerals 3. The Elements of crystallography 4. The optical properties of minerals 5. The occurrence of minerals 6. The classification of minerals 7. Economic grouping of minerals according to elements 8. The non-silicate minerals 9. The silicate minerals Appendix A Analysis by the blowpipe Appendix B Hydrocarbons

For this present edition, the complete re-setting of the book has made possible not only the integration of the added chapter on atomic structure into its proper place in the accounts of the chemical and physical properties of minerals, but also extensive rewriting and rearrangement of the material in the first part of the book.