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Donato García was the mineralogy professor at the Royal Cabinet of Natural History and Central University of Madrid from 1816 to 1853. In addition to teaching mineralogy, he gathered geological and mineralogical material for didactic purposes, and for exhibitions in the hall of the Cabinet. He was a key figure in developing the subject matter of mineralogy in Spain during the first half of the nineteenth century. Donato Garcia likewise promoted the careers of very important future teachers at the Military Academy of Engineers, Natural Sciences Museums, and Universities, integrating oral lectures, mineral testing, visual recognition, and the use of crystallographic models. This paper investigates how the crystallographic system proposed by Haüy (in the mid-thirties) was assimilated through unpublished documents of Donato García’s mineralogical lessons from 1824 to 1825, obtained from Spain’s Archivo General de Palacio (Madrid). Hence, this manuscript can be considered the first scientific work reliably attributable to Donato and based on the notes of his pupil José Musso y Valiente, which stands as an early attempt to create a handbook of mineralogy in Spanish. The novel approach to teaching mineralogy is furthermore compared with lessons published by disciple Antonio María Cisneros y Lanuza in 1843. Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature.

Mineraloške zbirke mogu biti različitog tipa, a količina i raznovrsnost uzoraka ovisit će o mogućnostima samog kolekcionara, kao i o dostupnosti uzoraka. Samo prikupljanje uzoraka je trajan proces, za koji je potrebno predznanje o mineralima koji se sakupljaju, ponajprije o njihovim fizičkim svojstvima kao prvim obilježjima koja se opažaju na nekom uzorku. U tekstu je u kratkim crticama izneseno kako formirati reprezentativnu mineralošku zbirku, kako ju obraditi, čuvati te upotrijebiti u nastavi. Ovo djelo je dano na korištenje pod licencom Creative Commons Imenovanje 4.0 međunarodna., Mineralogical collections are specialized geological collections consisting of mineral samples. They can be of different type, and the number and diversity of samples depend primarily on the possibilities of the collector, i.e. availability of samples. Collecting of samples is a permanent process, which requires prior knowledge of the minerals to be collected, especially of their physical properties as the first features encountered on a sample. Mineral samples are collected in various ways, i.e. through field investigation, by purchase, exchange, or donations. If mineralogical collections are to be used in elementary or high school teaching, they can be smaller and consist of samples collected only in the schools’ vicinity. Mineralogical collections for college education are usually more complex and are based on the crystal-chemical properties of the minerals. A brief introduction about forming a representative mineralogical collection, processing, maintaining, and utilizing it in teaching is given in this article. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

International audience; At the beginnng of the Twentieth Century, natural and physical sciences where teatched throught the "leçons de choses" who give a large part to real experimentation. Natural history cabinets and in particular mineralogical collections where presents in scholar establisments. In this paper, I will discuss the philosophy of the "leçons de choses" and relate the experience of the building of a mineralogical collection for undergraduate teatching. The connection between the choice of minerals and the official educationnal programs is presented, as well as the practical aspects of building such a collection. This experience show how to valorize the modest mineralogical samples.

En este trabajo se analiza la organización de la enseñanza de las ciencias naturales en el contexto escolar argentino a partir de las prácticas de enseñanza y los soportes materiales que se promovieron a fines del siglo XIX. En esa época, funcionarios escolares y profesores fomentaron la modernización y nacionalización de la enseñanza a partir del uso de colecciones con ejemplares del territorio nacional y la formación de museos en las escuelas. En particular, se examinan los debates oficiales sobre las colecciones mineralógicas ofrecidas en venta por el naturalista Enrique de Carlés y los "museos escolares" de los profesores Pedro Scalabrini y Guillermo Navarro que dan cuenta de las tensiones entre procurar materiales didácticos modernos, asociados a los modelos extranjeros, y la importancia de contar con elementos representativos de la naturaleza e industria nacional., In this study we analyze the organization of natural science teaching within the Argentinian school context starting with teaching practices and material support in the late XIX century. By that time, school staff and teachers fostered modernization and nationalization of teaching by using collections with national issues and the foundation of museums within the schools. In particular, we examine the official debates over the mineralogical collections offered for sale by the naturalist Enrique de Carlés, and the "school museums" by professors Pedro Scalabrini and Guillermo Navarro. These account for the tension between searching for modern didactic materials associated with foreign models, and the importance of counting on elements that represented the country nature and industry., Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo

Vengono descritte le caratteristiche del sistema impiegato per la gestione automatizzata delle collezioni mineralogiche del Museo di Mineralogia del dipartimento di Scienze della Terra dell'Università di Pavia. Il sistema è stato realizzando un PC (Vectra VL pentium 133 mhz) collegato in rete e con 16 Mb di RAMcon OS MS-DOS. Le applicazioni sono state sviluppate mediante DATA EASE v. 4.5