This is the reason why I have endeavoured to set before you a very special problem in a very elementary way and as far as possible without using technical terms. It is with the hope of attracting the interest of workers in other subjects to this fascinating problem of crystal growth which, from the time of BOYLE to that of RUSKIN, and more especially, as I have shown you, in recent years, has engaged the attention of Oxford students of crystals. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s note: Page 8, ‘allum’ changed to ‘alum,’ “corpuscles of nitre, alum, vitriol,” End of Project Gutenberg's The Growth of a Crystal, by Henry A. Miers