INTRODUCTORY NOTES



In the following, 1,932 mineral specimens of 182 species in the Wakabayashi Collection are first listed by name, locality and number, and then described in a tandard form such as:

For each mineral species;
Name, Ideal chemical composition, Crystal system, Space group, Specimen number(s),
and for each specimen within a species;
Specimen number(s), Locality, Brief descriptions of mode(s) of occurrence and crystal habit,
where the locality is given by the name of the place or the mine followed by the name of the district, ' Pref.' standing for ' Prefecture' and ' Isl.' for ' Island '.

For the descriptions of modes of occurrence and crystal habit, the following books have been referred to:
  (1) Ito, T. (1937): Beiträge zur Mineralogie von Japan, Neue Folge I & II,obutsu-kai, Tokyo,
  (2) Kinosaki, Y. (1939): Minerals of Korea, Geological Survey of Korea,
  (3) Ito, T. (1941): Japanese Minerals in Picture, Vols. 1-4, Daichishoin, Tokyo,
  (4) Ito, T. & Sakurai, K. (1947): Wada's Minerals of Japan, Ed, 3, Chubunkan shoten, Tokyo.
All the figures of crystal forms in this volume are taken from (1) and (3), but these are reproduced here only to illustrate the forms characteristic of each species and not necessarily the flgures of the respective specimens in the Wakabayashi Mineral Collection. The types of ore deposits are specified according to:
 (5)Lindgren, W. (1933): Mineral Deposits, Ed. 4, McGraw-Hill, New York.



All the colour plates in this volume are reproduced from photographs taken with a type of film mamed "Fuji Chrome Professional 120, Type T," which was placed at our disposal prior to its publication by the special courtesy of the Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.


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