Volume 13
Title Page
Contents
Officers and Members
Showing the Officers of the Institute from its Organization to the Present Time
List of the Meetings
Publications
Rules

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS

MEETING DATE
Proceedings of the XXXIXth Meeting, Chicago, Ill May, 1884
Proceedings of the XLth Meeting, Philadelphia, Pa. September, 1884
Proceedings of the XLIth Annual Meeting, New York City February, 1885

PAPERS:

CHICAGO, III MEETING May, 1884

TITLE AUTHOR
The Study of Iron and Steel J.C. Bayles
A Complete Gas Assaying-Plant Walter Lee Brown
A Blast-Furnace with Bosh Water-Jacket and Iron Top Arthur F. Wendt
The Concentration of Iron-Ores Arthur F. Wendt
The Influence of Organic Matter and Iron on the Volumetric Determination of Manganese J.B. Mackintosh
A Mexican Cupellation-Hearth W. Lawrence Austin Ph.D.
Water-Tube Steam-Boilers at the Lucy Furnaces, Pittsburgh, Pa William Kent M.E.
Russell's Improved Process for the Lixiviation of Silver-Ores C.A. Stetefeldt
Rolling Steel Ingots with their own Initial Heat John Gjers
Recent Improvements in Copper-Smelting Frederick H. McDowell
The Wolf Safety-Lamp Eugene B. Wilson
The Cauca Mining District, U.S. of Colombia. S.A. John Hays Hammond
Note on Patching Platinum Crucibles H.J. Seaman
Discussion of Mr. P. G. Salorn's Paper on "Physical and Chemical Tests of Steel for Boiler and Ship-Plate for the United States Government Cruisers,"  
The Estimation of Phosphorus in Iron and Steel Byron W. Cheever
The Segregation of Impurities in Bessemer Steel Ingots on Cooling Prof. Byron W. Cheever
The Hydraulic Cement Works of the Utica Cement Company, La Salle, Ill Henry C. Freeman C.E., E.M.
The Miners' Fund of New Almaden Samuel B. Christy
The Cerro de Mercado (Iron Mountain) at Durango, Mexico. John Birkinbine
The Blake System of Fine Crushing Theodore A. Blake M.E.
A New Method of Shaft-Sinking through Water-Bearing Loose Materials James E. Mills B.S.
Note on Tantalite and other Minerals, Accompanying the Tin Ore in the Black Hills Prof. Charles A. Schffer
Hadfield's Patent Manganese Steel Joseph D. Weeks
The Pocahontas Mine-Explosion J.H. Bramwell, Stuart M. Buck and Edward H. Williams Jr.
A new Rock-Drill without Cushion A.C. Rand
A Combined Vacuum-Pump and Table-Blowpipe W.F. Durfee
Notes on Coal-Dust in Colliery Explosions E.S. Hutchinson

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. MEETING September, 1884

TITLE AUTHOR
A New Pressure-Filter R.P. Rothwell
The Desilverization of Lead by Electrolysis N.S. Keith
Fire-Clays and Fire-Bricks in Sweden N. Lilienberg
Coal-Mining in the Connellsville Coke Region of Pennsylvania John Fulton E.M.
An Experiment in Coal-Washing Thomas M. Drown
The Spence Automatic Desulphurizing Furnace W.H. Adams
The Vallecillo Mines, Mexico Richard E. Chism
Notes on the Patio Process C.A. Stetefeldt
Progress of the Manufacture of Soda by the Ammonia-Soda Process Oswald J. Heinrich
The Separation of Strata in Folding Frederick G. Bulkley
Geology and Mineral Resources of the Rio Grande Region in Texas and Coahuila E.J. Schmitz
The Determination of Phosphorus Josef Westesson
American Mining Machinery in Mexico and Central America F.H. McDowell
The Electrical Activity of Ore-Bodies Carl Barus Ph.D.
The Iron-Mines of Putnam County, N. Y. Arthur F. Wendt
Experiments with a Straight or No-Bosh Blast Furnace W.J. Taylor
Note on a Fire-Bulkhead Charles M. Rolker
Notes on the Rhode Island and Massachusetts Coals Arthur B. Emmons Ph.D. LL.B.
The Deep River Coal-Field of North Carolina Dr. H.M. Chance
An Improved Langen Charger Frank Firmstone
The Siemens Patents for Improvements in Glass-Furnaces, with Suggestions for their Use with Natural Gas B. Silliman
Quicksilver Reduction at New Almaden Samuel B. Christy

NEW YORK MEETING February 1885

TITLE AUTHOR
The Iron-Ore Range of the Santiago District of Cuba James P. Kimball
Notes on the Treatment of Nickel-Cobalt Mattes at Mine La Motte James W. Neill E.M.
A New System of Ore-Sampling D.W. Brunton
The Patience of Copper and Silver as Affected by Annealing Henry M. Howe
The Estimation of Phosphorus in Iron and Steel Byron W. Cheever
Note on an Occurrence of Nickel and Cobalt in Nevada A.D. Hodges Jr. M.E.
The Cost of Mining and Milling Gold-Ores in Nova Scotia Willard Ide Pierce
The Use of High Explosives in the Blast Furnace and of a Water-Spray for Cooling in Blowing Down W.J. Taylor
Removing Obstructions from Blast-Furnace Hearths and Boshes T.F. Witherbee
Combined Amalgamation and Concentration of Silver-Ores W. McDermott
The La Plata Mountain Colorado Henry C. Freeman C.E., E.M.
A Theory to Explain the Cause of Hard Centers in Steel Ingots R. Gatewood U.S.N.
Hematite of Franklin County, Vermont Alfred F. Brainerd
Tin-Ore Veins in the Black Hills of Dakota William F. Blake
Tantalite and Columbite in the Black Hills of Dakota William F. Blake
A Bessemer Converting-House without a Casting-Pit L.G. Laureau
A Water-Gas Open-Hearth Furnace N. Lilienberg
Fuel-Economy in Engines and Boilers P. Barnes
A New Regenerative Hot-Blast Oven John C. Long E.M.
Certain Interesting Crystalline Alloys Richard Pearce
The Fahnehjelm Water-Gas Incandescent Light R.W. Raymond
The Clapp and Griffiths Process J.P. Witherow
The Clapp and Griffiths Process Robert W. Hunt
The Source and Behavior of Fire-Gas in the Johnstown Mines John Fulton
Biographical Notice of Benjamin Silliman Dr. Sterry Hunt
Biographical Notice of Sidney Gilchrist Thomas George W. Maynard

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