This review is mostly concerned with the structure of inorganic polycrystalline materials on a scale much larger than the atom, but dependent upon the behaviour of atoms as its units. Our interest is chiefly in the shape of crystals, but there are two basically different types. There are those, of almost any shape, which grow individually into a substantially uniform but different environment, and those which, having impinged upon other crystals, have their shapes determined by the necessities of the interface.
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