Volume 8

Title Page

Contents

Officers and Members

Rules

Plates

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS

MEETING	DATE
Pittsburgh	May, 1879
Montreal	September, 1879
New York General	February, 1880

PAPERS:

PITTSBURGH MEETING May, 1879

TITLE	AUTHOR
Pittsburgh-Its Resources and Surroundings:	William P. Shinn
The Tessié Gas Producer	A.L. Holley C.E. LL.D.
The Working of Three Hearths at the Cedar Point Furnace, Port Henry, N.Y.	T.F. Witherbee
The Antimony Deposits of Arkansas	Charles E. Wait C.E. M.E.
Regenerative Stoves-A Sketch of their History and Notes on their Use	John M. Hartman
Note on the Wear of an Iron Rail	W.E.C. Coxe
On the Classification of Original Rocks	Thomas MacFarlane
On the Use of Determining Slag Densities in Smelting	Thomas MacFarlane
Phosphorus in Bituminous Coal and Coke	Andrew S. McCreath
On an Apparatus for Testing the Resistance of Metals to Repeated Shocks	William Kent M.E.
On Some Curious Phenomena Observed in Making a Test of a Piece of Bessemer Steel	William Kent M.E.
Accidents in the Comstock Mines and their Relation to Deep Mining	John A. Church M.E.
The Hygienie of Mines	R.W. Raymond Ph.D

MONTREAL MEETING September, 1879

TITLE	AUTHOR
Recent Improvements in Concentration and Amalgamation	John A. Church
Washing Phosphoric Pig Iron for the Open-hearth and Puddling Processes at Krupp's Works, Essen.	A.L. Holley C.E. LL.D.
Note on the Zinc Deposits of Southern Missouri.	Rossiter W. Raymond Ph.D.
Experiments with Charcoal, Coke, and Anthracite in the Pine Grove Furnace, Pa	John Birkinbine
An Autographic Transmitting Dynamometer	William Kent M.E.
Relations of Sulphur in Coal and Coke	Dr. James P. Kimball
Atmospheric Oxidation or Weathering of Coal	Dr. James P. Kimball
Silver Islet	Thomas MacFarlane
A New Method of Dredging, Applicable to Some Kinds of Mining Operations	Rossiter W. Raymond Ph.D.
The New River Coal-field of West Virginia	S. Fisher Morris M.E.
A New Air-compresser	E. Gybbon Spilsbury
Note on the Defreest Journal-bearing	J.C. Platt Jr.

NEW YORK Annual General MEETING February, 1880

TITLE	AUTHOR
Fuel-gas and the Strong Water-gas System	Dr. Henry Wurtz
The Claiborne Group and its Remarkable Fossils	Prof. P.H. Mell Jr.
The Successful Manufacture of Pressed Fuel at Port Richmond, Philadelphia, Pa	E.F. Loiseau
Notes on the Siemens Direct Process	A.L. Holley C.E. LL.D
The Heat of the Comstock Lode	John A. Church E.M. Ph.D
The North Staffordshire Coal and Iron District	William Hamilton Merritt F.G.S.
The Mineral Resources of Southwestern Virginia	C.R. Boyd
Blast-furnace Working	Julian Kennedy
The Puddling Process, Past and Present	Percival Roberts Jr.
Notes on Battery and Copper-plate Amalgamation	Prof. Robert H. Richards S.B.
The Manufacture of Charcoal in Kilns	T. Egleston Ph.D.
The Law of Fatigue and Refreshment of Metals	T. Egleston Ph.D.
Notes on the Blast Furnace	J.M. Hartman
The Losses in Copper Dressing at Lake Superior	H.S. Munroe E.M. Ph.D.
Remarks on a Gold Specimen from California	Prof. George W. Maynard
The Mica Veins of North Carolina	W.C. Kerr
The Gold Gravels of North Carolina	W.C. Kerr
Supplement 1 to a Catalogue of Official Reports upon Geological Surveys of the United States and Territories and of British North America	Frederick Prime Jr.
Tile Mineral Resources of Wisconsin	Prof. Ronald D. Irving Ph.D.
The Determination of Silicon and Titanium in Pig Iron and Steel	Thomas M. Drown M.D. and P.W. Shimer M.E.
The American Bloomary Process for Making Iron Direct from the Ore	T. Egleston Ph.D.
The Cost of Milling Silver Ores in Utah and Nevada	R.P. Rothwell M.E.
The Eighty-ton Steam-hammer at Creusot	J.A. Herrick M.E.
The Determination of Sulphur in Sulphides and in Coal and Coke	Thomas M. Drown M.D.

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