Almost like new, gilting on exterior is vibrant, front interior has some felt pen markings, otherwise clean, bright and unmarked with a tight binding. 233 pages with a detailed index, lots of photos, footnotes and diagrams, written by Oliver Cummings Farrington (9 October 1864 Brewer, Maine, USA – 2 November 1933 Chicago, Illinois, USA) was an American geologist. He was born at Brewer, Maine, and was educated at the University of Maine (B.S., 1881; M.S., 1888) and at Yale University (Ph.D., 1891), where he was tutor in 1890-91. Between 1882 and 1887 he taught science in various Maine academies, in 1893 he was an assistant in the United States National Museum, in 1894 he became curator geology in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, and from 1894 to 1904 he was lecturer on mineralogy at the University of Chicago. He was a collaborator in mines and mineralogy at the Paris Exposition in 1900 and a member of the International Jury of Awards at St. Louis in 1904. He was the president of the American Association of Museums (now the American Alliance of Museums) in 1914-16. The mineral farringtonite, first found in the Springwater meteorite, is named in his honor. A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object, such as a comet, asteroid, or meteoroid, that originates in outer space and survives its passage through the atmosphere to reach the surface of a planet or moon. When the original object enters the atmosphere, various factors such as friction, pressure, and chemical interactions with the atmospheric gases cause it to heat up and radiate…