MEMOKIAL OF THOMAS M. JACKSON 13 



1905. Report on collections from plant-bearing beds in Jurassic, or forming 



the transition to the Lower Cretaceous. U. S. Geological Survey 



Monograph, vol. xlviii, pp. 148-179. 

 1905. Notes on some fossil plants from the Shasta Group of California and 



Oregon. U. S. Geological Survey Monograph., vol. xlviii, pp. 221-273. 

 1905. Notes on some Lower Cretaceous (Kootanie) plants from Montana. 



U. S. Geological Survey Monograph, vol. xlviii, pp. 284-315. 

 1905. Report on various collections of fossil plants from the Older Potomac 



of Virginia and Maryland. U. S. Geological Survey Monograph, vol. 



xlviii, pp. 476-580. 



MEMORIAL OF THOMAS MOORE JACKSON 

 BY I. C. WHITE ^ 



Thomas Moore Jackson, C. E., D. Sc, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, 

 the son of James Madison Jackson and Caroline Moore Jackson, was 

 elected a Fellow of this Society May 20, 1889, and died February 3, 1912, 

 in his sixtieth year. He graduated from the engineering department of 

 Washington and Lee University in June, 1873, with the degree of C. E., 

 and the same institution conferred on him the degree of D. Sc. in 1887. 

 After his graduation he engaged in the engineering pursuits of railway 

 and coal mining work until his election to the Chair of Civil and Mining 

 Engineering in the West Virginia University in 1887. 



As a teacher of engineering. Professor Jackson was intensely practical, 

 encouraging his students to combine theory with actual work on engi- 

 neering projects, so that the men who graduated under his tutelage 

 stepped immediately from the University into good engineering posi- 

 tions, in which all have achieved distinction. It was while at the West 

 Virginia University that Professor Jackson and his pupils ran the lines 

 of levels on coal beds under the direction of the writer, by which the latter 

 was enabled to locate the Mannington oil field in Marion County, West 

 Virginia, 35 miles in advance of any developments, and to demonstrate 

 conclusively to the oil and gas fraternity the reliability of the "Anti- 

 clinal Theory" as described in the Bulletin of this Society. ^ 



Professor Jackson resigned from the Chair of Civil and Mining Engi- 

 neering in the State University in June, 1891, to engage in the more 

 active field work of his profession, constructing, in connection with the 

 late H. H. Eogers, of Standard Oil fame, the "Short Line'^ Eailway 

 from Clarksburg to New Martinsville in order- to give his home city a 



1 Presented orally in abstract at the New Haven meeting of the Society, but the 

 manuscript was not received in time for insertion in its proper place in volume 24. 



" I. C. White : The Mannington oil field and the history of its development, vol. 3, 

 pp. 187-216. 



