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This Book summarizes modern petrology from the genetics standpoint has been attempted. The scale of the work is small as compared with the magnitude of its subject, but it is nevertheless believed that the field has been reasonably covered. In the conformity with the genetics viewpoint petrology, as contrasted with petrography, has been emphasized throughout; and purely descriptive mineralogical and petro graphical details has been omitted. Furthermore, it is believed that all that is food and living in the older work has been incorporated, consciously or unconsciously, in the newer. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. It is hoped that the book will appeal to student of geology who have acquired an elementary knowledge of the science and who are going on to more advance work to advance students and post graduate researcher and to worker in other branches of geology who desire a conspectus of other branches of geology who desire a conspectus of the present state of the science of petrology.