Volume 34
Containing the Papers and Discussions of 1903

Title Page

Preface

Contents

Officers

List of the Meetings

Publications

Rules

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS

MEETING	DATE
Albany (Annual) Meeting	February, 1903
New York Meeting	October, 1903

PAPERS:

ALBANY MEETING February, 1903

TITLE	AUTHOR
The Ore-Deposits of Sudbury, Ontario	Charles W. Dickson
Operations of the Hudson River Water-Power Company	Charles E. Parsons
Flue-Dirt and Top-Pressure in Iron Blast-Furnaces: A Study of the Influences Controlling Them (Discussion, p. 922)	F. Louis Grammer
Water-Hoisting in the Pennsylvania Anthracite Region (Discussion, p. 923)	R.V. Norris
The Cost of Pumping at the Short Mountain Colliery of the Lykens Valley Coal Company	R.V. Norris
Electrical Apparatus for Coal-Mining (Discussion, p. 928)	W.B. Clarke
Compressed-Air Motors for Gathering Cars in Coal-Mines	Beverley S. Randolph
Note on the Influence of the Rate of Cooling on the Structure of Steel	Albert Sauveur and H.C. Boynton
Notes on Accidents Due to Combustion within Air-Compressors (Discussion, p. 950)	Albert R. Ledoux
Origin of Pebble-Covered Plains in Desert Regions	William P. Blake
Zinc- and Lead-Deposits of Northern Arkansas	George I. Adams
Electrolytic Lead-Refining	Anson G. Betts
A Test for Precious Metals in Cyanide Solutions	Albert Arents
Biographical Notice of Abram S. Hewitt. (Frontispiece)	R.W. Raymond
Effect of Fineness of Grain on the Fusibility of Clay (Discussion, p. 956)	Heinrich Ries
Geological Relations of the Manganese-Ore Deposits of Georgia (Discussion, p. 968)	Thomas L. Watson
Notes on the New Jersey Fire-Brick Industry	Heinrich Ries
Notes on the Metallurgy of Copper of Montana	H.O. Hofman
School Laboratory-Work : A Free-Milling Gold-Run	Robert H. Richards and E.E. Bugbee
Electrical Power-Transmission for Mines	Francis O. Blackwell
Application of Electricity in the Anthracite Coal-Field of Pennsylvania, with Special Reference to the Wyoming Field (Discussion, p. 976)	H.H. Stoek and G.W. Harries
The Determination of Power for Rolling Iron and Steel	Louis Katona
The Geology and the Copper-Deposits of Bisbee, Arizona	F.L. Ransome
Biographical Notice of Arthur L. Collins	Benjamin B. Lawrence
The Box Electric Rock-Drill	Frank E. Shepard

NEW YORK MEETING October, 1903

TITLE	AUTHOR
Note Concerning an Old Instrument for Finding Distances, Exhibiting the Oldest Known Form of the Transit-Theodolite Principle	H.D. Hoskold
The Treadwell Group of Mines, Douglas Island, Alaska	Robert A. Kinzie
The Reduction of Lead from Litharge in Preliminary Assays, and the Advantages of an Oxide Slag	E.H. Miller, E.J. Hall and M.J. Flak
Tests of Steel for Electric Conductivity, With Special Reference to Conductor-Rails	J.A. Capp
Biographical Notice of William Earl Dodge	James Douglas
Relative Elimination of Impurities in Bessemerizing Copper-Matte (Discussion, p. 957)	W. Randolph Van Lewis
Hot-Blast Smelting for the Elimination of Arsenic, Antimony, Lead and Zinc from Copper-Mattes, and for the Production of Lead	S.E. Bretherton
An Example of the Alteration of Fire-Brick by Furnace Gases	Frank Firmstone
The Assay of Zinc-Box Residues from the Cyanide Process (Discussion, p. 964)
Some Practical Suggestions Concerning the Genesis of Ore-Deposits	Max Boehmer
Observations on Mother Lode Gold-Deposits, California (Discussion, p. 973)	William A. Prichard
The Garnet-Formations of the Chillagoe Copper-Field, North Queensland, Australia (Discussion, p. 974)	George Smith
The Condition and Action of Carbon in Iron and Steel (Discussion, p. 979)	Herbert E. Field
The Sperry Vanning-Buddle (Discussion, p. 980)	Edwin A Sperry
The Metallurgy of the Homestake Ore (Discussion, p. 983)	C.W. Merrill
The Cyanide-Plant and Practice at the Ymir Mine, West Kootenay, British Columbia	Edwin C. Holden
Hearth-Area and the Number of Tuyeres in Iron Blast-Furnace Practice	F. Louis Grammer
The Yellow-Ocher Deposits of the Cartersville District, Bartow County, Georgia	Thomas Leonard Watson
Notes on Contact-Metamorphic Deposits in the Sierra Nevada Mountains	H.W. Turner
Tombstone and Its Mines	William P. Blake
A Laboratory Study of the Stages in the Refining of Copper (Discussion, p. 984)	H.O. Hofman, C.F. Green and R.B. Yerxa
Biographical Notice of Theodore D. Rand	Thomas M. Drown
Investigations in Thermal Chemistry, Showing Atomic Heat-Valency (Discussion, p. 986)	Halbert Powers Gillette
Osmosis as a Factor in Ore-Formation	Halbert Powers Gillette
A Proposed Filter-Press Slimes-Plant	Francis L. Bosqui
Biographical Notice of J. Peter Lesley	Benjamin Smith Lyman
Biographical Notice of John F. Blandy	R.W. Raymond
The Electric Steel-Furnace at Gysinge, Sweden	F.A. Kjellin
The Power Plant of the Moctezuma Copper Company at Nacozari, Sonora, Mexico	John Langton
The Gold-Mining Districts of Central Siberia	Lewis Blanchard Brown
Mineral Resources of British India	Sarat C. Rubra
The Copper-Deposits of the Kaibab Plateau, Arizona (Discussion, p. 989)	E.P. Jennings
Notes on the Coal- and Iron-Fields of Southeastern Shansi, China	William H. Shockley
Copper-Ore and Garnet in Association	William P. Blake
The Refining of the Precipitates Obtained by Means of Zinc in the Cyanide Process of Gold and Silver Extraction	G. Howell Clevenger

DISCUSSIONS

TITLE	AUTHOR
Of Mr. Lindgreu's Paper on the Geological Features of the Gold Production of North America(see Trans., xxxiii., pp. 790, 1077)
Of Mr. Grammer's Paper on Flue-Dirt and Top-Pressure in Iron Blast-Furnaces: A Study of the Influences Controlling Them (see p. 92)
Of Mr. Norris's Paper on Water-Hoisting in the Pennsylvania Anthracite Region (see p. 106)
Of Mr. Clarke's Paper on Electrical Apparatus for Coal-Mining (see p. 134)
Of Dr. Ledoux's Paper on Notes on Accidents Due to Combustion Within Air- Compressors (see p. 158)
Of Mr. Ries's Paper on the Effect of Fineness of Grain on the Fusibility of Clay (see p. 205)
Of Mr. Van Liew's Paper on the Relative Elimination of Impurities in Bessemerizing Copper-Matte (see p. 418)
Of Mr. Lodge's Paper on the Assay of Zinc-Box Residues from the Cyanide Process (see p. 432)
Of Mr. Watson's Paper on Geological Relations of the Manganese-Ore Deposits of Georgia (see p. 207)
Of Mr. Prichard's Paper on Observations on Mother Lode Gold-Deposits, California (see p. 454)
Of Mr. Smith's Paper on the Garnet-Formations of the Chillagoe Copper-Field, North Queensland, Australia (see p. 467)
Of Messrs. Stoek and Harris's Paper on Application of Electricity in the Anthracite Coal-Field of Pennsylvania. with Special Reference to the Wyoming Field (see p. 512)
Of Mr. Field's Paper on the Condition and Action of Carbon in Iron and Steel (see p. 559)
Of Mr. Sperry's Paper on the Sperry Vanning-Buddle (see p. 572)
Of Mr. Merrill's Paper on the Metallurgy of the Homestake Ore (see p. 585)
Of Messrs. Hofman, Green and Yerxa's Paper on a Laboratory Study of the Stages in the Refining of Copper (see p. 671)
Of Mr. Gillette's Paper on Investigations in Thermal Chemistry, Showing Atomic Heat-Valency (see p. 702)
Of Mr. Jennings Paper on the Copper-Deposits of the Kaibab Plateau (see p. 839)

INDEX

TITLE	AUTHOR
Index
Errata