Volume 9
Title Page
Contents
Officers and Members
Rules
Plates

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS

MEETING DATE
Lake Superior August, 1880
Philadelphia Annual Meeting February, 1881

PAPERS:

LAKE SUPERIOR MEETING August, 1880

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A Flux for Rolling-mill Cinder and Silicious Iron Ores in the Blast Furnace Dr. James P. Kimball
The Silver Sandstone District of Utah Charles M. Rolker E.M.
Some Copper Deposits of Carroll County, Maryland Prof. Persifor Frazer
Notes on Two Scaffolds at the Cedar Point Furnace T.F. Witherbee
A Comparison of Certain Forms of Ports for Steel-melting Furnaces P. Barnes
A Short Blast at the Warwick Furnace, Pennsylvania John Birkinbine
Removing Scaffolds in Blast Furnaces J.P. Witherow
On the Self-fluxing Properties of Chateaugay Magnetite, from Clinton County, N. Y., and its Treatment in the Blast Furnace Dr. James P. Kimball
On the Weight, Fall, and Speed of Stamps H.S. Munroe E.M. Ph.D.
A Glossary of Mining and Metallurgical Terms R.W. Raymond Ph.D.
Rail Specifications and Rail Inspection in Europe C.P. Sandberg C.E.
The Whopper Lode, Gunnison County, Colorado Prof. Persifor Frazer
The Chemical Reactions in the Bessemer Process, the Charge Containing but a Small Percentage of Manganese Charles F. King
Effect of Sewage on Iron Prof. Charles O. Thompson
Note on a Direct Process for Treating Fine Iron Ores W.E.C. Eustis

PHILADELPHIA MEETING February 1881

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The Advance in Mining and Metallurgical Art, Science and Industry Since 1875 William P. Shinn
On the Action of Common Salt and Other Related Crystalline Salts in Wire Drawing Prof. Charles O. Thomson
An Ore-roasting Furnace W.J. Taylor
A Fluxing Gas-producer for Making Heating Gas W.J. Taylor
Gas-producers using Blast F.H. Daniels
Note on the Estimation of Copper in Speise F.C. Blake
Notes on the Assay Spitzlutte Prof. R.H. Richards
The Wearing Capacity of Steel Rails in Relation to their Chemical Composition and Physical Properties Charles B. Dudley Ph.D.
On Rail Patterns A.L. Holley C.E. LL.D.
Shocks on Railway Bridges John W. Cloud
Steel for Bridges John W. Cloud
Can the Magnetism of Iron and Steel be used to Determine their Physical Properties? William Metcalf
A New Bottom for Bessemer Converters Charles F. Manness
The Industrial School for Miners and Mechanics, at Drifton, Luzerne County Pa. Oswald J. Heinrich
The Amount of Manganese required to Remove the Oxygen from Iron after it has been blown in a Bessemer Converter S.A. Ford
Method for the Estimation of Manganese in Spiegels, Irons and Steels S.A. Ford
Auriferous Slate Deposits of the Southern Mining Region P.H. Mell Jr. M.E. Ph.D
The Construction of Geological Cross-sections H. Martyn Chance M.D.
The Gold-bearing Mispickel Veins of Marmora, Ontario, Canada R.P. Rothwell M.E.
Ore Dressing and Smelting at Pribram, Bohemia Ellis Clark Jr.
Coal Washing S. Stutz M.E.
The Carbonic Acid Gas Process at the Kehley Run Colliery Fire H.M. Chance M.D.
The Whitwell Firebrick Hot-blast Stove, and its hut Improvements F.W. Gordon
Brazos Coal Field, Texas Charles A. Ashburner
New Method of Mapping the Anthracite Coal Fields of Pennsylvania Charles A. Ashburner
Burnishing and Ductilizing Steel Jacob Reese
Discussion on Steel Rails. Philadelphia Meeting Ashbel Welch
R.W. Hunt
William Sellers
W.R. Jones
William Metcalf
William R. Hart
R.H. Sayre
William Kent
Dr. August Wendel
Prof. T. Egleston
J.W. Cloud
Jacob Reese
C.E. Stafford
O. Chanute
Dr. C.B. Dudley
Discussion on Steel Rails. Virginia Meeting C.P. Sandberg
Prof. Rich Akerman
Dr. R.W. Raymond
Dr. C.B. Dudley
Memoranda on the Analysis of Statistics A.W. Hale
Supplement II, to a Catalogue of Official Reports upon Geological Surveys of the United States and Territories, and of British North America Frederick Prime Jr. Ph.D
The Formation of Gold Nuggets and Placer Deposits T. Egleston Ph.D.
The Cause of Rustiness and of some of the Losses in Working Gold T. Egleston Ph.D.
On the Occurrence of Lustrous Coal with Native Silver in a Vein in Porphyry in Ouray County Colorado Prof. G.A. Koenig and Moritz Stockder E.M.
The Condition of Sulpher in Coal and its Relation to Coking Thomas M. Drown
A Summer School of Practical Mining Prof. Henry S. Munroe
On the Use of Salt Coating in the Manufacture of Iron and Steel Wire Charles A. Morgan
Copper Refining in the United States T. Egleston Ph.D.
Relations of the Graphite Deposits of Chester County, Pa, to the Geology of the Rocks containing Them Prof. Persifor Frazer

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