They turned it over to Chris Stanley, a mineralogist at London's Natural History Museum, who discovered that it had the same chemistry sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide .
Vernadsky began as a mineralogist, soon enlarged his studies to embrace the whole "biosphere," which he denned as the area where life existsfrom about two miles underground to .
The tube contained a grain of radium, worth $4,000; had been thrown away by a careless nurse and located approximately in the dump heap by use of a mineralogist's divining .