Volume 27

Title Page

Preface

Contents

Officers

List of the Meetings

Publications

Rules (Amendments)

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS

MEETING	DATE
Chicago (Annual) Meeting	February, 1897
Lake Superior	July, 1897

PAPERS:

CHICAGO MEETING February, 1897

TITLE	AUTHOR
The Handling of Material at the Blast-Furnace	Axel Sahlin
The Cement-Materials of Southwest Arkansas (Discussion, 944)	John C. Branner
The Manganese-Deposits of the Department of Panamá, Republic of Colombia	Eduardo J. Chibas
Sorting Before Sizing	Robert H. Richards
The Distribution of the Precious Metals and Impurities in Copper, and Suggestions for a Rational Mode of Sampling	Edward Keller
The Hand-Auger and Hand-Drill in Prospecting Work	Charles Catlett
The Quality of the Boiler-Water Supply of a Portion of Northern Illinois	James A. Carney
Brief Note on Rail-Specifications	Robert W. Hunt
Notes on the Determination of Insoluble Phosphorus in Iron-Ores	Charles T. Mixer and Howard W. Dubois
The Geology of the Magnetites near Port Henry, N. Y., and Especially those of Mineville	J.F. Kemp
Notes on the Northern Black Hills of South Dakota	Persifor Frazer
Biographical Notice of Joseph D. Weeks	Alfred E. Hunt
Biographical Notice of Alexander Trippel	R.W. Raymond
Sulphur in Embreville Pig-Iron	Guy R. Johnson
The Spitzkasten and Settling-Tank	R.H. Richards and C.E. Locke
The Calorific Value of Certain Coals as Determined by the Mahler Calorimeter (Discussion, 946)	N.W. Lord and F. Hass
A Decimal Gauge for Wire and Sheet-Iron	R.W. Raymond
The Precipitation of Gold by Zinc-Thread from Dilute and Foul Cyanide-Solutions	Alfred James
The Chromite-Deposits on Port au Port Bay, Newfoundland	George W. Maynard
The Chicago Main Drainage Channel	J.F. Lewis
Methods of Iron-Mining in Northern Minnesota	Prof. F.W. Denton
Biographical Notice of George W. Goetz	Nelson P. Hulst
Improvements in Mining and Metallurgical Appliances During the Last Decade (Presidential Address at Chicago)	E. Gybbon Spilsbury
The Genesis of Certain Auriferous Lodes (Discussion, 993)	John R. Don

LAKE SUPERIOR MEETING July, 1897

TITLE	AUTHOR
The Fullers' Earth of South Dakota	Heinrich Ries
The Clays and Clay-Working Industry of Colorado	Heinrich Ries
The Development of Lake Superior Iron-Ores	D.H. Bacon
The Electrolytic Assay as Applied to Refined Copper (Discussion, 946)	George L. Heath
A Mine-Dam	William Kelly
The Potsdam Gold-Ores of the Black Hills of South Dakota	Frank Clemes Smith
Notes on the Tin-Deposits of Mexico	Walter Renton Ingalls
A Combination Retort and Reverberatory Furnace	Courtenay DeKalb
Biographical Notice of Peter Ritter von Tunner	R.W. Raymond
Investigations of Water-Supply	F.H. Newell
Notes on Six Months' Working of Dover Furnace, Canal Dover, Ohio	Arnold K. Reese
The Influence of Lead on Rolled and Drawn Brass (Discussion, 977)	Edwin S. Sperry
The Technology of Cement Plaster	Paul Wilkinson
The Iron-Ore Supply	John Birkinbine
Mining Methods on the Mesabi Range	C.E. Bailey
Explorations on the Mesabi Range	C.E. Bailey
The Marquette Range - Its Discovery, Development and Resources	James E. Jopling
Some Dike Features of the Gogebic Iron-Range (Discussion, 978)	C.M. Boss
The Origin and Mode of Occurrence of the Lake Superior Copper Deposits	Dr. M.E. Wadsworth
The Michigan College of Mines	Dr. M.E. Wadsworth
Some Statistics of Engineering Education	Dr. M.E. Wadsworth
The Efficiency of Built-Up Wooden Beams (Discussion, 993)	Edgar Kidwell

DISCUSSIONS

TITLE	AUTHOR
Discussion: The Cyanide Process (see papers by Prof. Christy, Mr. Furman and Mr. Packard, Vol. xxvi., pp. 709, 721 and 733)
Discussion of Mr. Sauveur's paper on the Microstructure of Steel and the Current, Theories of Hardening (see Vol. xxvi., p. 863)
Discussion of Prof. Branner's paper on the Cement Materials of Arkansas (see p. 42)
Discussion of the paper by Messrs. Lord and Haas on the Calorific Value of Certain Coals (see p. 259)
Discussion of Mr. Heath's paper on the Electrolytic Assay as Applied to Refined Copper (see p. 390)
Discussion of Mr. Sperry's paper on the Influence of Lead on Rolled and Drawn Brass (see p. 485)
Discussion of Mr. Boss's paper on Some Dike Features of the Gogebic Range (see p. 556)
Discussion of Prof. Kidwell's paper on the Efficiency of Built-Up Wooden Beams (see p. 732)
Discussion of Dr. Don's paper on the Genesis of Certain Auriferous Lodes (see p. 564)
Discussion (continued) of Mr. Bayliss's paper on Accumulation of Amalgam on Copper Plates (see Vol. xxvi., p. 33)
Discussion (continued) of the Physics of Cast-Iron (see Vols. xxv., pp. 84, 964; xxvi., pp. 176, 997)

INDEX

TITLE	AUTHOR
Index