American Mineralogist
REGULAR ARTICLE
137 The metamict state
158 Monochromator utilizing the rotary power of quartz
166 Differential thermal analysis of the dolomite decomposition
180 Occurrence of beta tricalcium phosphate in northern Mexico
184 Preparation of nuclear-track plates and stripping films for the study of radioactive minerals
197 Spherulitic breccias in a dome near Wenatchee, Washington
207 Approximate formulae for triclinic calculations
211 Quantitative determination of calcite associated with carbonate-bearing apatites
223 Coordination models
230 Cryolite twinning
234 Twinning of cryolite
242 “Remarks on “”Twinning of cryolite”””
244 Sapphirine occurrence of Cortland, New York
252 Acceptance of the Mineralogical Society of America Award
308 Correspondents, fellows and members of the Mineralogical Society of America
341 Simple field method for the determination of phosphate in phosphate rocks
342 New locality of shortite
AWARD
250 Presentation of the Mineralogical Society of America Award to Orville Frank Tuttle
NEW MINERAL NAMES and DISCREDITED MINERALS
359 New mineral names; Discredited minerals; New data
NOTES and NEWS
337 Notes and news: Notes on the staining of potash feldspar with sodium cobaltinitrite in thin section
BOOK REVIEW
349 Book reviews
PROCEEDINGS
276 Proceedings of the thirty-second annual meeting of the Mineralogical Society of America at. Detroit, Michigan
335 Mineralogical Society (London)
MEMORIAL
254 Memorial of Ralph Dixon Crawford
257 Memorial of William Thomas Gordon
260 Memorial of William Marsh Myers
264 Memorial of Heinrich Ries
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