MEMORIAL TO JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS1869-1969

MARL A. TRAGER

Dallas, Texas

Joseph Volney Lewis, noted geologist and

much beloved teacher, left friends behind in

all parts of the United States and Canada when

he died in White Plains, New York, on January

16, 1%9. The eldest of ten children, he was

born September 14, 1869, in Rutherford County,

North Carolina, just 12 miles from the steep

face of (he Blue Ridge Front of the Appala­

chian Mountains. His father was Jay Whittington

Lewis and his mother was Mary Catherine

Bennett of Welsh ancestry. During his life of

almost a century he was active for 70 years

as a college professor and a mining and petro­

leum geologist in the United States, Canada,

Venezuela and the Far East.

After receiving a B.S. degree in engineering from the University of North

Carolina he was appointed field assistant to M. R. Campbell. They studied

the coal geology and mapped Appalachian structures near Big Stone Gap,

Virginia, and adjacent areas of Kentucky and Tennessee. This project

included revision of old topographic maps.

Upon completion of this summer's work he became Assistant Geologist

for the North Carolina Geological Survey and did plane table mapping of

coal, iron ore and limestone until October 1892. During the 1892-1893

school year he was a graduate student at Harvard. By special permission

he was permitted to attend a course given by Dr. N. S. Shaler, Head of the

Department of Geology, in addition to his regular curriculum. On the basis

of this year's work he was certified for a S.B. degree in geology at Harvard.

Professor J. E. Wolf of Harvard recommended that Volney transfer to

Johns Hopkins University to study under Dr. Geo. H. Williams, who had

just completed extensive studies in microscopic examination of rocks and

crystals in Germany where progress in this field was more advanced than

in the United States. Accordingly Volney transferred to Johns Hopkins

University. He was asked to make a study of the olivine rocks of North

Carolina which the North Carolina Geological Survey agreed to underwrite

and publish. About mid-season of 1893-1894, Dr. Williams returned to

Maryland to conduct some field work, contracted malaria and died.

During the 1894-1895 school year Volney continued graduate work at

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JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS 45Johns Hopkins with frequent conferences and laboratory studies at the

U.S. Geological Survey in Washington, D.C.

On December 24, 1895, he married Margaret Johnston Hendon who died

in 1937. There were 2 children, Eleanor, who married Ellis B. Cook, now

deceased, and Mary Lydia, who died in infancy. Volney leaves three grand­

children, Sally, Stephan and Ellis B. Cook, Jr., and 6 great grandchildren.

Volney was one of the kindest, most affable and cooperative persons I

have ever worked with. A recent letter from a coworker illustrates his

attitude toward his coworkers and their regard for him. “It was my privilege

to work with Mr. Lewis in the complete survey of the Organ Pipe Cactus

National Monument in 1940. This mineral survey was prior to the opening

of Organ Pipe Cactus to mining. Mr. Lewis was one of the most outstanding

persons I have ever known that could explain geology to the layman in an

understandable manner. I have always considered my work with him to be

equal to at least one term of college work in geology, due to his ability

as a teacher” (Wm. R. Superinaugh, Supt.).

Volney became Professor of Geology and established a Department of

Geology at Clemson College, the newly established South Carolina College

of Agriculture and Engineering, in January 1896. To give the students the

benefit of a full college year, Clemson conducted classes during the summer

of 1896 and then gave the students a vacation during the winter months.

Volney spent the winter vacation of 1897 at Yale University where he col­

laborated with J. H. Pratt on studies of secondary and accessory minerals

to peridotite. This work was continued by Pratt and in 1905 it was published

as Vol. 1 of the North Carolina Geological Survey with Lewis as co-author.

Clemson College shifted the annual vacation period from winter to summer

in 1898. Volney’s vacation this year was spent in North Carolina continuing

his studies on peridotites. The U.S. Geological Survey assigned a topo­

graphic party to work with Lewis’ party under his supervision, with C. E.

Cook as Topographic Engineer. New base maps were made and frequently

the geology and topography were mapped on the same sheet.

The summers of 1899, 1900 and 1901, Lewis spent as Professor of Geology

and Geography for the South Carolina State School for Teachers. Brief consulting trips were made to inspect mining prospects, quarries and to

investigate water problems. As an Associate Geologist for the U.S. Geo­

logical Survey, he spent the summer of 1902 with Arthur C. Spence investigat­

ing and mapping the geology of metal mining areas, chiefly copper, in

Colorado and Wyoming.

He returned to North Carolina in the summer of 1903 and continued his

studies of the peridotites in North Carolina and Georgia, tracing the belt

to the southwest. This study was completed in the summer of 1904, at which

time he resigned his professorship at Clemson College to become Head of

the Geology Department at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

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His early summer vacations while with Rutgers were spent in special

investigations for the N. J. Geological Survey, chiefly on copper deposits.

Part time was spent in tracing the Appalachian peridotite belt from North

Carolina to the Canadian Border.

His schedules during the academic years from 1905 to 1908 were arranged

so as to permit him to take graduate work at Columbia University. At this

late date there was little thought of bringing together scattered credits for

a doctorate. The original work intended for a thesis had become greatly

expanded and published so that it could not be used for a Doctor’s thesis.

He was not interested in a Master’s Degree.

During the academic years from 1906 to 1912 Volney served as a part-time

associate of Dr. Henry S. Washington. They maintained an office in New

York City as consulting geologists and mining engineers. This terminated

when Dr. Washington accepted a position with the Geophysical Laboratory

in Washington, D.C.

During his last eleven years with Rutgers (1915-1926), his summers were

given to private exploration for ore deposits and petroleum in many parts

of the United States and Canada.

He took leave of absence from Rutgers from October 1921 to October

1922 to be in charge of sub-surface geology in Mexico for the El Aguila

Co. In the fall of 1922 he was named Assistant Dean of Students at Rutgers.

When the United States entered World War I, Volney was too old to be

drafted so he joined the New Jersey National Guard. He spent most of his

time on War Minerals. When the violent explosions of powder and ammuni­

tion dumps rocked Parlin, New Jersey, his company was dispatched to

Parlin the first day. After a few days he arranged to drive back and forth

daily to meet his classes at irregular intervals.

Lewis’ geologic experience at Rutgers was very broad. He taught crystal­

lography, mineralogy, determinative mineralogy, general geology, historical

geology, several required courses for ceramic students, a short course for

clay workers, economic geology, advanced mineralogy and geology, micro­

scopic petrography, and physiology. All these courses were not offered at any one time. The first graduate course, which seniors could attend, was

offered in 1915 and was called Rocks and Soils. Lewis resigned from Rutgers

in 1927.

In addition to his heavy teaching and consulting schedule at Rutgers,

Volney and Mrs. Lewis gave periodic parties in their home for geology

students. They were so successful and enjoyable that the students vied for

an invitation.

Volney had a great sense of humor and he could spring it most subtley.

He also loved music, especially symphonic, and when he became too old

to move about easily he listened to classical music on radio or from records.

Early in his life at Rutgers he sang with a choral group in New Brunswick.

JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS 47His chief interest outside geology was philosophy. George Santayana was

a professor at Harvard while Volney was a student. They became acquainted

and corresponded in later life. Volney was much interested in his philo­

sophy and read all of his publications. He was also keenly interested in

semantics and other related philosophies.

He took leave of absence from Rutgers in 1926 to accept a position as

Chief Staff Geologist in Charge of Foreign Exploration for the Gulf Oil

Corporation. Field parties were organized for combined geological and

geophysical surveys and dispatched to Columbia, Venezuela, Iraq and other

Near East areas, and finally to the East Indies. During this period the Gulf

Oil Corporation was negotiating for oil concessions in Bahrain, the Neutral

Zone, El Hasa and Kuwait. Lewis was asked his opinion at several stages

during these negotiations. On one occasion he met with Professor Madgwick

in Calgary, Canada, to discuss the geology and terrain of Bahrain Island,

since he had presented to the company a map based on a hasty study of

the surface geology.

Drilling was in progress in a number of areas being prospected by the

Gulf Oil Corporation when the depression of 1929-1930 struck. On short

notice all the parties were brought home and dismissed, including Lewis’

position as Chief, World Exploration Project.

The Century of Progress Exposition at Chicago was just getting under

way in 1931. Lewis was selected to take charge of the designing and con­

struction of the Earth Science exhibits. These included diaramas of the

geology and active operations of a coal mine, a metal mine, metal milling,

smelters, oil wells, pipe lines and refineries in addition to other related

industries. The Century of Progress Exposition was open to the public in

1933 and 1934.

After the Exposition closed, the U.S. Geological Survey assigned Lewis,

with C. F. Parks, Jr., and several young assistants to investigate past and

present gold mining operations in the southern Piedmont and in the Appala­

chians. This area extended from Virginia to Alabama.

Upon completion of the principal field operations, Lewis joined C. S. Ross

in a study of the geology and detailed mapping of sulfide deposits in south­

western Virginia, where rich “black copper” had been mined in the 1850’s.

This work supplemented U.S. Geological Survey Prof. Paper 179 on the

paragenesis of the deposits of the Ducktown type.

In 1934, I suggested that Volney transfer from the Geological Survey to

the National Park Service, of which I was Chief Geologist and Chief of the

Naturalist Division. He was appointed Regional Geologist, Region 4, which

extended from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast, with headquarters

in San Francisco. The early years of this assignment were during the days

of the Civilian Conservation Corps. One of the duties of the geologists

was to see that no CCC project would mar any of the noteworthy features

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of the park. Volncy assisted the engineers of Region 4 in the location of

roads, the testing of foundations for buildings, dams, bridges, reservoirs

and in the search for water supplies.

While stationed in San Francisco for the National Park Service, Volney

met Mildred Leo Clemens, niece of Mark Twain, who was a publicist for

the city of San Francisco and a devotee of national parks. They were mar­

ried in June 1938; she died in I960.

During Volney's many years with the National Park Service he wrote

many reports, some comprehensive, which are available only from the

files of the National Park Service. Those with which I have some famil­

iarity are:

1. The Salt Deposits of the Devil's Golf Course in Death Valley.

2. A complete geological survey of Organ Pipe Cactus National M onu­

ment. On a temporary loan to the Justice Department in 1941-1942 he

made a comprehensive study of the geology in selected areas of the Olympic

Peninsula, southwest of the Olympic National Park. He was checking the

possibility of there being commercial deposits of manganese or oil which

required checking surface geology, examining test pits, logs of old wells,

and examining seepages. Later he testified in Federal Court prior to the

acquisition of additional lands for the Olympic National Park by condem­

nation proceedings.

3. Volney visited many caves within National Park areas and also in

areas which were proposed to be included within National Park boundaries.

He became so interested in caves that he prepared a manuscript on Caves,

Caverns and Grottos, which was never published.

4. Investigation of the Grand Canyon of the Snake River, with Anderson

and Davidson.

5. Outline of the geology of Lava Beds N ational M onum ent, with

Anderson.

6. The Modoc Lava Beds, with Anderson.

7. Craters of the Moon National Monument.

8. The Discovery and Exploration of Rampart Cave, with Chappel. This

cave contains many remains of the ground sloth which lived here from

10,000 to 55,500 years ago, in a climate somewhat cooler than today.

Volney was transferred in June 1942, from the National Park Service

to the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com­

merce, Mining Division as Metals and Mining Specialist.

In December 1942, Civil Service transferred him to the War Production

Board, Mining Division, as Geologist, Mining Engineer and Section Chief.

This continued until the end of the War Production Board in October 1948.

At this point Volney returned to consulting practice with headquarters

in San Francisco. His work was mostly searching for oil or gas and pros­

pecting and mining for metallic ores. This work was done mostly in the

JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS 49rugged terrain of the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Coast. In one of his

notes he stated “I find it prudent to slacken the pace with the passing of

time.” In 1961 he decided to retire and moved to White Plains, New York,

to live with his daughter.

During his professional career he was a member of the following scientific

societies: Geological Society of America, fellow, awarded the Legion of

Honor gold pin in 1945 for 50 years membership; Mineralogical Society of

America: A.I.M.M.E.; Min. and Mining Society of America; Mineralogical

Society of America; A.A.P.G.; Pan America Institute of Mining and En­

gineering Geology; New Jersey State Micro. Society, President; Society of

Economic Geologists, Secretary and Treasurer; Sec. Comm, on Sedimenta­

tion-National Research Council; One of the founders and incorporators of

the first Board of Governors, of Mining Club, Inc., New York, New York;

Eng. & Mining Journal, Editor and Contributing Editor.

Honors conferred upon Lewis were: Phi Beta Kappa, Rutgers 1905; later

based on his scholarship record he received an honorary Phi Beta Kappa

at the time of installing a new chapter at the University of North Carolina;

Sigma Xi by Rutgers in 1922; Legion of Honor, A.I.M.M.E., 1945; a bio­

graphical sketch of his activities was carried in Who’s Who in America

from 1910-1951.Several of his publications merit special recognition. They are: A Manual

of Determinative Mineralogy, with A. C. Hawkins, 4 eds.; The Geology of

New Jersey, with Kummel, 3 eds.; Map of New Jersey, with Kummel, 3 eds.; The Evolution of Mineral Coal, Ec. Geol., vol. 29, no. 1, p. 1-38, and Ec.

Geol., vol. 29, no. 2, p. 157-202. A complete list of his Bibliography follows.

And so endeth the life of a very active geologist, one who was friendly,

kind and an inspiration to his fellow man.

Notes on Bibliography (and other things) by J. Volney Lewis

The accompanying list of publications is believed to be complete. How­

ever, like most geologists of long experience, I have prepared a number

of reports and manuscripts with the view to eventual publication. Some

have languished in the vaults of state and U.S. Government bureaus, chiefly

U.S. Geological Survey and National Park Service, which generally have

more material available than funds for publication.

Some have been held too long as “classified” or have been lost in the

files of mining and oil corporations. Some that are not yet lost nor entirely

outdated may some day see the light. If one of these should be dusted off

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I shall hope for opportunity to bring it in some measure up to date or,

better still, I shall try to persuade one of my many capable young assistants,

now grown into maturity and loaded with responsibility, to take a new look

at the fields of our ancient endeavors.

Fortunately, through most of this half-century, geologists have grown

increasingly aware of a favorable change of attitude in many fields of mining,

particularly in the larger operations in metals, oil, and gas. The credit for

this more liberal view is due in large measure to the geologists themselves,

many of whom have consistently advocated and encouraged the reading,

discussion and publication of papers that present scientific data and con­

clusions, even though strictly these are the property of the corporations

whose research has brought them forth.

Such far-seeing leadership is yielding reciprocal advantages of greater

value to all concerned than did the old myopic tradition of absolute secrecy.

It advances not only the science of geology but eventually also the general

welfare.

Perhaps we may reasonably anticipate the time, not too far in the future,

when reports of merit will neither be buried in files nor held too long in

secret.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF J. VOLNEY LEWIS

Published writings of J. Volney Lewis, as checked and verified

to December 14, 1954. Believed complete or nearly so.

1893 Notes on building and ornamental stone: N.C. Geol. Surv., First biennial

report of State Geologist for 1891-92, p. 57-107, map, 5 pis.

1895 Origin of the peridotites of the southern Appalachians: Elisha Mitchell Sei.

Soc. Jour., vol. 12, pt. 2, p. 24-37, 5 pis. (incl. 4 maps).

1896 Corundum of the Appalachian crystalline belt: Amer. Inst. Min. Eng. Trans.,

vol. 25, p. 852-906, map, bibliog.

--- Corundum and the basic magnesian rocks of western North Carolina: N.C.

Geol. Surv. Bull. 11, 107 p., map. 6 pis., 8 figs.

1905 Corundum and the peridotites of western North Carolina (with Joseph Hyde

Pratt): N.C. Geol. Surv., vol. 1, 464 p., 45 pis., 35 figs., maps, bibliog.

1906 Corundum and the peridotites of western North Carolina: Geologische Central-

blatt, vol. 8, p. 487-492, author's abstract.

--- Corundum and the peridotites of western North Carolina: Elisha Mitchell

Sci. Soc. Jour., vol. 22, p. 8-16, author's abstract.

____ An Ontario lead deposit (Hastings County): Econ. Geol., vol. 1, p. 682-687,

2 figs.

1907 Structure and correlation of the Newark trap rocks of New Jersey: Geol. Soc.

Amer. Bull., vol. 18, p. 195-210.

--- Structure and correlation of the Newark trap rocks of New Jersey: Science,

JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS 51n.s. vol. 26, p. 177-178, author’s abstract.

1907 The origin and relations of the Newark rocks: N.J. Geol. Surv. Ann. Rept. of

State Geologist for 1906, p. 99-129, map, 2 pis., 4 figs.

____ The Newark (Triassic) copper ores of New Jersey: N.J. Geol. Surv. Ann. Rept.

of State Geologist for 1906, p. 131-164, 3 pis., 4 figs.

____ Properties of trap rocks for road construction: N.J. Geol. Surv. Ann. Rept. of

State Geologist for 1906, p. 165-172, 1 fig.

____ Copper deposits of the New Jersey Triassic: Econ. Geol., vol. 2, p. 242-257,

1 pi. (map), 1 fig.

--- The double crest of Second Watchung Mountain, New Jersey: Jour. Geol.,

vol. 15, no. 1, p. 39-45, 3 figs. (incl. 2 maps).

--- Glance as an original copper ore: Eng. and Min. Jour., vol. 84, p. 688.

____ Peridotites and corundum: author's abstracts, reviews and discussion of N.C.

Geol. Surv. Bull. 11; N.C. Geol. Surv., vol. 1; and U.S. Geol. Surv. Bull. 269;

Jour. Geol., vol. 15, p. 85-91.

1908 Structure and correlation of the Newark trap rocks of New Jersey: N.Y. Acad.

Sci. Annals, vol. 18, p. 336, author's abstract.

--- The Palisade diabase of New Jersey: Amer. Jour. Sci., ser. 4, vol. 26, p. 155-163.

--- Petrography of the Newark igneous rocks of New Jersey: N.J. Geol. Surv. Ann.

Rept. of State Geologist for 1907, p. 97-167, map, 51 pis. (incl. structural map).

--- Petrography of the Newark igneous rocks of New Jersey: Science, n.s. vol. 28,

p. 574, author’s abstract.

1909 Prospecting for ores of the Goldfield type: Eng. and Min. Jour., vol. 87, p. 1121-

1123.

--- Building stones of New Jersey: N.J. Geol. Surv. Ann. Rept. of State Geologist

for 1908, p. 53-124, 20 pis. (incl. map).

1912 Notes on the paragenesis of the zeolites (with discussion by A.C. Lane and

F.R. Van Horn): Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., vol. 23, p. 727.

--- Notes on the paragenesis of the zeolites: Science, n.s. vol. 35, p. 313, author’s

abstract.

____ Geologic map of New Jersey (1910-1912): scale 1:250,000 (with H.B. Kummel),

N.J. Geol. Surv.

1913__A manual of determinative mineralogy: 151 p., New York, John Wiley & Sons.

____ The pillow lavas of the Watchung Mountains (New Jersey): N.J. Geol. Surv.

Bull. 16, p. 51-56.

1914 Origin of pillow lavas: Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., vol. 25, p. 32-33, author’s

abstract.

--- Origin of pillow lavas: Geol. So'c. Amer. Bull., vol. 25, p. 591-654.

1915 Origin of the secondary minerals of the Triassic trap rocks: N.J. Geol. Surv.

Bull. 16, p. 45-49.

____ Geologic map of New Jersey: scale 1:250,000 (with H.B. Kummel), 2d ed.,

N.J. Geol. Surv.

--- The geology of New Jersey, a summary to accompany the geologic map (1910-

1912), on the scale of 1:250,000 (with H.B. Kummel): N.J. Geol. Surv. Bull. 14,

146 p., with revised 2d ed. map of the state, 2 pis. (maps) and 15 figs.

____ Corundum and emery: The Mineral Industry (for 1914), vol. 23, p. 6-10, New

York, McGraw-Hill Book Co.

1915 Mica: The Mineral Industry (for 1914), vol. 25, p. 521-527, New York, McGraw-

Hill Book Co.

--- A manual of determinative mineralogy: 2d ed., 155 p.. New York, John Wiley

& Sons.

1916 Triassie igneous rocks in the vicinity of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (with G.W.

Stose): Geol. Soc. Anter. Hull., vol. 27, p. 55-57, author's abstract.

-- Triassie igneous rocks in the vicinity of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (with G.W.

Stose): Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., vol. 27, p. 625-644, map.

___ Absence of pyrite from certain zeolite localities: Amer. Min., vol. 1, p. 92.

-- The Rutgers Sesquicentenniel volume: Compiled and edited by a committee,

J. Volney Lewis, Chairman. Published 1916 or 1917. Sec copy in Rutgers Uni­

versity Library for title, date. etc.

— Stone implements from Trenton (N.J.) and Staten Island (N.Y.), Character

and sources of material: Amer. Anthropologist, n.s. vol. 1«, no. 2, n. 198-

202, 1 pi,

___ Abrasives: The Mineral Industry (for 1915), vol. 24, p. 1-9, New York, McGraw-

Hill Book Co.

--- Mica: The Mineral Industry (for 1915), vol. 24, p. 496-503, New York, McGraw-

Hill Book Co.

1917 Abrasives: The Mineral Industry (for 1916), vol. 25, p. 25-33, New York,

McGraw-Hill Book Co.

__ Mica: The Mineral Industry (for 1916), vol. 25, p. 500-508, New York, McGraw-

Hill Book Co.

1918 Abrasives: The Mineral Industry (for 1917), vol. 26, p. 1-9, New York, McGraw-

Hill Book Co.

Mica: The Mineral Industry (for 1917), vol. 26, p. 446-453, New York, McGraw-

Hill Book Co.

1919 Magnetic and nonmagnetic chrome: Econ. Geol., vol. 14, no. 6, p. 491-494.

___ The magmatic origin of barite deposits: Econ. Geol., vol. 14, no. 7, p. 568-570.

--- Abrasives: The Mineral Industry (for 1918), vol. 27, p. 1-12, New York,

McGraw-Hill Book Co.

-- Mica: The Mineral Industry (for 1918), vol. 27, p. 483-489, New York, McGraw-

Hill Book Co.

1920 Mica in 1919: Eng. and Min. Jour., vol. 109, no. 3, p. 237-238.

--- Feldspar in 1919: Eng. and Min. Jour., vol. 109, no. 3, p. 238-239.

Chromc-ore deposits in North Carolina: Eng. and Min. Jour., vol. 109, no. 20,

p. 1112-1114, 3 figs.

--- Abrasives: The Mineral Industry (for 1919), vol. 28, p. 1-10, New York, Mc-

Graw-Hill Book Co.

--- Mica: The Mineral Industry (for 1919), vol. 28, p. 461-466, New York, McGraw-

Hill Book Co.

1921 Deposits of chrome ore in North Carolina: U.S. Geol. Surv. Bull. 725, p. 101-

139, 1 pi. (map), 2 figs.

--- Deposits of chrome ore in North Carolina: Washington Acad. Sci. Jour.,

vol. 11, no. 20, p. 494-495, abstract by R.W. Stone.

--- Abrasives: Eng. and Min. Jour., vol. I l l , no. 4, p. 154.

--- The mica industry: Eng. and Min. Jour., vol. I l l , no. 4, p. 158.

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JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS 531921 Proceedings of the first annual meeting of the Society of Economic Geologists,

held at Chicago, 111., Dec. 28-29, 1920: Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., vol. 32, no. 1,

p. 157-162.

--- A manual of determinative mineralogy: 3d ed., 298 p., 81 figs., New York,

John Wiley & Sons.

____ Abrasives: The Mineral Industry (for 1920), vol. 29, p. 1-9, New York, McGraw-

Hill Book Co.

____ Mica: The Mineral Industry (for 1920), vol. 29, p. 450-457, New York, McGraw-

Hill Book Co.

1922 Cyprine and associated minerals from the zinc mine at Franklin, New Jersey

(with L.H. Bauer): Amer. Jour. Sci., 5th ser., vol. 4, p. 249-251.

____ Geology and mining of mica: Eng. and Min. Jour.-Press, vol. 113, no. 20,

p. 856-864, 4 figs.

____ Abrasives: The Mineral Industry (for 1921), vol. 30, p. 1-6, New York, McGraw-

Hill Book Co.

--- Mica: The Mineral Industry (for 1921), vol. 30, p. 461-468, New York, McGraw-

Hill Book Co.

1923 Review: The ore magmas, by J.E. Spurr: Eng. and Min. Jour.-Press, vol. 116,

no. 1, p. 26.

____ Fissility of shale and its relations to petroleum: Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., vol.

34, no. 1, p. 63-64, author's abstract.

--- Studies in sedimentation in the colleges and universities of the eastern part of

the United States in 1922-23: Report of the Committee on Sedimentation,

National Research Council, p. 7-11, Washington, D.C.

1924 The ghost of the molten magma: Eng. and Min. Jour.-Press, vol. 118, no. 7,

p. 250.

____ Fissility of shale and its relations to petroleum: Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., vol.

35, no. 3, p. 557-590.

--- Studies in sedimentation in the eastern colleges and universities in 1923-24:

Report of the Committee on Sedimentation, National Research Council, p. 8-12,

Washington, D.C.

--- The petroleum situation as viewed from the Pacific coast; an inquiry into the

causes underlying the present condition of the market: Eng. and Min. Jour.-

Press, vol. 118, no. 15, p. 574-577, 5 pis., 2 figs.

1925 Mining geology, a review of progress: Eng. and Min. Jour.-Press, vol. 119,

no. 3, p. 102-104.

____ Ore deposition at Franklin Furnace, New Jersey (with J.E. Spurr): Eng. and

Min. Jour.-Press, vol. 119, no. 8, p. 317-328, 21 figs. (incl. 4 halftones).

____ Possible inorganic petroleum, an inquiry as to quantitative adequacy: Eng. and

Min. Jour.-Press, vol. 120, no. 4, p. 137-139 (discussion, editorial page).

____ Sedimentary studies in eastern colleges and universities in 1924-25: Report of

the Committee on Sedimentation, National Research Council, p. 9-13, Wash­

ington, D.C.

1926 Progress in mining geology: Eng. and Min. Jour.-Press, vol. 121, no. 3, p.

103-105.

--- An old standby rewritten: A review of geology applied to mining, by J.E.

Spurr: Eng. and Min. Jour.-Press, vol. 122, no. 8, p. 314.

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1926 Genesis of sulphide ores; Discussion: Eng. and Min. Jour.-Press, vol. 122,

no. 9, p. 341.

--- Pirsson’s petrology revised; A review: Eng. and Min. Jour.-Press, vol. 122,

no. 10, p. 391-392.

--- Magmatic carbons and hydrocarbons (abs.): Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., vol. 37,

no. 1, p. 148-149; and Pan-Amer. Geologist, vol. 45, no. 1, p. 96.

1927 Geology advances theory of ore deposits: Eng. and Min. Jour., vol. 123, no. 4,

p. 143-145.

---Practical oil geology, 4th ed., by Dorsey Hagar; A review: Eng. and Min.

Jour., vol. 123, no. 11, p. 460.

1928 Mining geology : Eng. and Min. Jour., vol. 125, no. 3, p. 114-115.

1929 Petrography (of Triassic igneous rocks, Fairfield-Gettysburg area, Pa.): U.S.

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