Volume 14

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 XLIID Meeting, Chattanooga	May, 1885
Proceedings of the XLIIID Meeting, Halifax N.S.	September, 1885
Proceedings of the XLIVD Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pa.	February, 1886

PAPERS:

CHATTANOOGA MEETING May, 1885

TITLE	AUTHOR
The Relative Value of Coals to the Consumer	Dr. H.M. Chance
The New Mining Code of Mexico	Richard E. Chism M.E.
The Iron Ores of Pictou County, Nova Scotia	E. Gilpin Jr. A.M., F.G.S., F.R.S.C.
The Microscopic Structure of Iron and Steel	F. Lynwood Garrison
A Simple Apparatus for Determining the Relative Strength of Explosives	S. Whinery
Colored Mining Labor	Alfred F. Brainerd
The Utilization of the Iron and Copper Sulphides of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee	C.R. Boyd
The Influence of Temperature in Steel-Making on the Behavior of the Ingots in Rolling	John W. Cabot
The Straight or No-Bosh Blast Furnace	W.J. Taylor
Experiments with Bolts and Screw-Threads	Major William R. King U.S. Engineer
Treatment of Roasted Pyrites by the Longmaid and Claudet Processes for the Extraction of Gold and Silver	T. Egleston Ph.D.
The Manufacture of Steel Castings	P.G. Salom
The Durham Blast-Furnace	B.F. Fackenthall Jr.
Further Notes on the Clapp and Griffiths Process	Robert W. Hunt
The Flow of Air and Other Gases	Fred W. Gordon
Gordon's Improved Whitwell-Cowper Fire-Brick Hot-Blast Stove	Victor O. Strobel
The Geology and Mineral Resources of Sesquachee Valley, Tennessee	W.M. Brown
The Sulphide-Deposit of South Iron Hill, Leadville, Colorado	Francis T. Freeland B.S.
Biographical Notice of Charles 0. Thompson	Philip W. Moen
The "Centennial" and "Lotta" Gold Properties, Coahuila. Mexico	Dr. Persifor Frazer
Quicksilver-Condensation at New Almaden	Samuel B. Christy
Note on An Exhibition of Banded Structure in a Gold Vein	Charles M. Rolker
Notes on Certain Iron-Ore Deposits in Colorado	Charles M. Rolker
Notes on the Leadville Ore-Deposits	Charles M. Rolker
The Upper Measure Coal-Field of Tennessee	Henry E. Colton

HALIFAX N.S. MEETING September, 1885

TITLE	AUTHOR
The Engineer and the Wage-Earner	J.C. Bayles
The Amalgamation of Gold-Ores, arid the Loss of Gold in Chloridizing-Roasting, with Especial Reference to Roasting in a Stetefeldt Furnace	C.A. Stetefeldt
The Present Value of Steel Castings	Arthur V. Abbott
The Homogeneity of Open-Hearth Steel	H.H. Campbell
The Work of the Blast-Furnaces of the North Chicago Rolling-Mill Co.	Fred W. Gordon
Note on a Self Dumping Water-Tank	William Ide Pierce
Estimation of Manganese. Carbon. and Phosphorus in Iron and Steel	Bryon W. Cheever
Mr. E. D. Campbell's Colorimetric Process for Estimating Phosphorus in Iron and Steel	Bryon W. Cheever
A New Method for the Determination of Phosphorus in Iron and Steel	J.B. Mackintosh
Lixiviation and Amalgamation Tests	F.W. Clark
Note on the Contraction of Iron on Sudden Cooling	Henry M. Howe A.M., S.B.
The Pictou Coal-Field	Henry S. Poole F.G.S. Assoc. R.S.M.
The Wolf Benzine-Burning Safety-Lamp	E.J. Schmitz
The Product and Exhaustion of the Oil-Regions of Pennsylvania and New York	Charles A. Ashburner
The Geology of Natural Gas	Charles A. Ashburner
Topographical Models: Their Construction and Uses	A.E. Lehman
Basic Refractory Materials	T. Egleston Ph.D.
An Electrical Furnace for Reducing Refractory Ores	Dr. T, Sterry Hunt
Note on the Apatite Region of Canada	T. Sterry Hunt
Improvements in Ore-Crushing Machinery	S.R. Krom
The Manufacture of Iron in Canada	James Herbert Bartlett
The Sydney Coal-Field, Cape Breton, N. S.	W. Rutledge M.E.
The Distribution and Proportions of American Blast-Furnaces	John Birkinbine
The Improved Brückner Cylinders	R.W. Raymond
The Specific Gravity of Low-Carbon Steel	George S. Miller

PITTSBURGH Pa. MEETING February, 1886

TITLE	AUTHOR
Professional Ethics	J.C. Bayles
The Geology of the Pittsburgh Coal-Region	J.P. Lesley
Pittsburgh and Vicinity-A Brief Record of Seven Years' Progress	William P. Shinn
The Nova Scotia Gold Mines	E. Gilpin Jr. A.M., F.G.S., F.R.S.C. etc.
The Mineral Resources of the Hudson's Bay Territories	Robert Bell B.A.S.C., M.D., LL.D.
The Manufacture of Fire-Brick at Mount Savage, Maryland	Robert Anderson Cook A.M.
The Classification and Composition of Pennsylvania Anthracites	Charles A. Ashburner
Proposed Apparatus for Determining the Heating Power of Different Fuels	William Kent M.E.
The Process Used at the Comstock for Refining Coppery Bullion Produced by Amalgamating Tailings	A.D. Hodges Jr.
Note on a Deposit of Fire-Sand in Clinton County, N. Y.	Alfred F. Brainerd M.E.
The Sampling of Cast-Iron Borings	Porter W. Shimer M.E.
Note on the Determination of Small Quantities of Titanium in Irons and Steels	Horace L. Wells
Note on the Reduction of Ferric Solutions by the Use of Amalgamated Zinc and Platinum Foil	Alfred L. Beebe
Note on a Cupel-Machine	Prof. Charles E. Wait
Note on the Use of Gasoline-Gas in a Chemical Laboratory	Prof. Charles E. Wait
A New Method of Laying Submarine Tunnels and Tubes	Richard P. Rothwell
Mitis-Castings from Wrought-Iron or Steel	Petter Östberg
A Chilled Blast-Furnace Hearth	James Gayley
Biographical Notice of Oswald J. Heinrich	R.W. Raymond
Peculiar Phenomena in the Heating of Open-Hearth and Bessemer Steel	William Garrett
Notes on the Constitution of Cast-Iron	C.B. Dudley and F.N. Pease
Geology of the Low Moor, Virginia, Iron-Ores	Benj. Lyman
Iron-Ore Deposits of Southern Utah	W.P. Blake
Recent Failures of Steel Boiler-Plates	William Kent M.E.
Soft Steel for Boiler-Plates	Alfred E. Hunt
Operation of Warwick Furnace, Pennsylvania, from August 27th, 1880, to September 1st, 1885	John Birkinbine
The Mining Compass and Trigonometer	Reich G. Gaertner
The Cornwall Iron-Ore Mines, Lebanon County, Pa.	E.V. d’Invilliers
The Product of the Hibernia Iron-Nine, N. J.	J. Wesley Pullman
The Microscopic Structure of Car-Wheel Iron	F. Lynwood Garrison F.G.S.
The Clapp-Griffiths Converter: Later Practice and Commercial Results	J.P. Witherow
The Heine Safety-Boiler	E.D. Meier C.E.
Colorado Ore-Deposits (Correction)	Note by the Secretary

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