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exceeding somewhat the waste when steel scraps are used ; for the cinder 
in the blooms has to be purged off in the process, and secondly, the almost 
purely metallic titaniferous bloom iron is much harder to melt than scrap 
steel ; is longer exposed therefore to the flame, and therefore wastes more. 
By adding pig metal this evil will find a remedy. 
The peculiar qualities of this steel will no doubt be intensified when its 
own titaniferous pig metal is used with its titaniferous forge blooms. 
A dose of Franklinite may yet be necessary. Mr. Fesquét thinks it 
acts by giving up carbon. He suggests, however, that possibly it acts 
through manganese ; but as nearly all the manganese goes off in the slag, 
he thinks its peculiar use is to keep the cinder fluid, and taking the iron’s 
place in the cinder. 
Stated Meeting, July 21, 1871. 
Present, three members. 
Mr. CHASE in the Chair. Secretary, Mr. LusnEy. 
A photograph of Dr. O. Seidenstricker was received for the 
Album. 
Letters of envoy were received from the Senkenburg So- 
ciety, at Frankfort, the I. Akad. Vienna, and the Society at 
Riga. 
Letters of acknowledgment were received from Dr. Bunge, 
of Greiswald; Herr Tunner, of Leoben; Dr. Rokitansky; the 
Zool. Bot. Soc., Vienna; Munich Observatory, and Chicago 
Academy. 
A letter was read from Mr. Putnam, of Salem, the consid- 
eration of which was postponed. 
Donations for the Library were received from the R.5., 
Tasmania; I. A., Vienna; Z. B.S., Vienna; Senk.S., Frank- 
fort; R. Danish 8.; R. Com. Geol., Italy ; Capt. Settimanni ; 
School of Mines, Paris; R. Ast., R. Geogr. and Chem. 5S8., Lon- 
don; Nature; San Fernando Observatory; Essex Institute ; 
Mass. Hist. 8., Am. Antigq.S., Camb. Mus. Com. Zool., J. H. 
Trumbull, Sill. Jour., Mrs. Willard, N. Y. Lyceum, Frank. 
Inst., Acad. N.S, Coll. Pharmacy, Med. News, Dr. Rushen- 
berger, Isaac Lea, Peabody Inst., and Secretary Robeson, of 
Washington. 
