The Socorro chieftain., 1904-10-15
SCHOOL OF MINES OF NEW MEXICO.
Contributions to Recent Scientific
and Mining Literature by Mem
bers of the Faculty.

hN dNAANlAl anu ploHKtNS ol
the higher educational institu-
tions of today are shown i'm no
way better than by the capacities
of those connected with such
schools for making original in
veStigationS, and thus advancing
knowledge. Among all of the
progressive men of the world the
exercise of this capacity cf
research is taken as the principal
measure of the real strength and
ability of the members of
faculty and the position of the
institution 1t must be therefore
source of great qualification to
all New MeXicans to know
something of the national inter-
est that is now being taken in
this kind of work which is going
on quietly in one of our own
institutions.
OF more than passing interest
are several important memoirs by
Doctor KeyeS, which have recent
~ left the press. Some of them
have an instructive bearing upon
mining and ore deposition in
New Mexico and the Southwest.
The structure of the Magdalena
district with relation to the ore
deposits is described in late
number of the American Geolo-
gist. A sketch of the geological
formations of New Mexico has
recently been published by the
United States government. a
notice of the finding of natural
brass ore "copper" and zinc
carbonate known as the mineral
aurichalcite was read before the
Academy of Sciences and printed
in the proceedings of that society.
In the current number of the
American Journal of Science is a
very readable explanation of some
hitherto very puzzling phenomena
connected with the ore deposits
in New Mexico. Recent issues of
the Engineering and Mining
Journal contain articles on the
iron deposits of the Chupadero
Mesa so miles east of SocorrO,
and on the new coal-felds of
Hagan in Sandoval county.
A few months before his recent
and untimelY death, Professor
Herrick, who was then lecturer
on Geology at the School of
Mines, prepared a number of
noteworthy articles embracing
some of his most important
observations in New Mexico.
These papers have since been
published in various scientific
journals. His Laws of New
Mexico Mountain Ranges" APP
peared in late issue of the
American Geologist. A Coal
Measure Forest" is published in
the Journal of Geology. Several
huge tree-ferns are new to science.
One of these is named Lepidoden-
dron KeyeSi in honor of Presi-
dent KeyeS. Several other
contributions are printed in cur
rent issues of the Journal of
Psychology and also in the
Journal of Philosophy.
In the Northwestern Journal of
Education, Professor Gordon dis
cusSeS in an entertaining manner
the New Theory of Earth
Origin" and the Work of
Rivers" He has also several
instructive meteorological articles
in the Journal of Geology and in
the American Geologist. One of
these is on the alteration of the
iron bearing mineral augite to
hOrnblende, and another is on the
formation of the group of
minerals called pyroXiniteS which
are associated with certain phos-
phate deposits.
In a recent number of the
Journal of Philosophy, Psychic
logy, and Scientific Methods,
Professor c. Edward MagnuSson
contributes a valuable article ON
"Dimensional Equations and the
Principle of the Conservation of
Energy" While most of the
memoir is deeply philosophical in
character much OF it is of great
interest to those persons who are
following the modern trend OF
physical science and electrical
engineering.
The several recent articles by
| Mr.. DOminian have already been
noticed in these columns. The
paper on Mining in Turkey
which appeared in the Engineer