Volume 6
Title Page
Contents
Officers and Members
Rules
Plates

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS

MEETING DATE
Wilkes-Barre May, 1877
Amenia October, 1877
Philadelphia October, 1878

PAPERS:

WILKES-BARRE MEETING May, 1877

TITLE AUTHOR
Hydraulic Mining in California A.J. Bowie Jr. A.B.
The Mechanical Work Performed in Heating the Blast Prof. B.W. Frazier
Iron Manufacture in Mexico J.P. Carson
The Action of Small Spheres of Solids in Ascending Currents of Fluids and in Fluids at Rest J.C. Bartlett A.M.
Classification of Coals Persifor Frazer Jr.
Note on the Manufacture of Ferromanganese and the Blast Furnaces F. Valton
Can we Transmit Power in Large Amount by Electricity? N.S. Keith
Notes on Fire-Brick Stoves for Blast Furnaces John M. Hartman
On the Southern Limit of the last Glacial Drift across New Jersey and the adjacent parts of New York and Pennsylvania Prof. George H. Cook
A Mining Laboratory Prof. Robert H. Richards
Note upon the Cost of Two Blast Furnaces in the Cleveland District of England P. Barnes
Note upon the Cost of Six Regenerative Furnaces P. Barnes
Note upon the Cost of Iron Rails as made in 1866 in a leading English Railway Company’s Rolling Mill P. Barnes
The Rothschönberger Stollen Rossiter W. Raymond Ph.D

AMENIA MEETING October, 1877

TITLE AUTHOR
The Manhattan Salt Mine, at Goderich, Canada Oswald J Heinrich
Fluxing Silicious Iron Ores T.F. Witherbee
New Method of taking Blast-Furnace Sections T.F. Witherbee
Notes on the Salisbury (Conn.), Iron Mines and Works A.L. Holley C.E.
Notes on the Iron Ore and Anthracite Coal of Rhode Island and Massachusetts A.L. Holley C.E.
The Mesozoic Formation in Virginia Oswald J Heinrich M.E.
Copper Mining on Lake Superior Prof. Thomas Egleston Ph.D.
The Eureka Lode of Eureka, Eastern Nevada W.S. Keyes
The Eureka-Richmond Case Rossiter W. Raymond Ph.D
What is a Pipe Vein? Rossiter W. Raymond Ph.D
Results of Analyses of Blast-Furnace Gases Charles A. Colton E.M.
Copper by Electricity N.S. Keith
The New Works at Clausthal for Dressing Ores John C.F. Randolph E.M.
Jet Pumps for Chemical and Physical Laboratories Prof. Robert H. Richards
On "Buckshot" Iron F.P. Dewey
Report on a Standard Wire Gauge Prof. Thomas Egleston Ph.D.
Analyses of some Tellurium Minerals E.P. Jennings
An Edgestone Crusher for Analytical Sample Prof. Robert H. Richards
Memoranda relating to the Boiler Account as kept during the construction of the Edgar Thomson Steel Works P. Barnes
Missing Ores of Iron Persifor Frazer Jr.
Graphic Method of Keeping the Record of Working of a Blast Furnace William Kent M.E.
The Ore-Deposits of Eureka District, Eastern Nevada William P. Blake F.G.S.

PHILADELPHIA MEETING February, 1878

TITLE AUTHOR
The Strength of Wrought Iron as affected by its Composition and by its Reduction in Rolling A.L. Holley Ph.B. M.I.C.E.
The Late Operations on the Mariposa Estate Charles M. Rolker E.M.
Memoranda showing the percentage of the different Expense Accounts in Mining Hematite Ore at the Manhattan Mine, Sharon Station, New York J.F. Lewis
Notes upon the Drainage of a Flooded Ore-Pit at Pine Groove Furnace, PA John Birkinbine
The Fire Clays and Associated Plastic Clays, Kaolins, Feldspars, and Fire Sands of New Jersey Prof. John C. Smock
Manganese Pig Rossiter W. Raymond Ph.D.
Note upon the Cost of Construction of the Converting Works of the Edgar Thomson Steel Company, of Pittsburg, Pa., 1873-1875 P. Barnes
Note upon the " Blue" Process of Copping Tracings P. Barnes
The Economy effected by the Use of Red Charcoal B. Fernow
On the Use of Red Charcoal in the Blast Furnace William Kent M.E.
The Nickel Ores of Orford, Quebec, Canada W.E.C. Eustis A.B., S.B.
On the Manufacture of Artificial Fuel at Port Richmond, Philadelphia E.F. Loiseau
On Pulverized Zinc and its Uses in Analytical Chemistry Dr. Thomas M. Drown

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