102 Editorial Note. 
Water in a state of combination or its element 12°00 
Volatile matter expelled at a red heat in the fori of inflammable 
ses and vapors, 26-00 
Fixed carbon 59°20 
sh of areddish color or sometimes gray, 2°80 
100°00 
All the age? of the west, are non-bituminous, but in a furnace 
or stove, burn with a bright red flame, give out a good degree of 
heat, and, for all MERE purposes, will rank next to the anthracite 
coals of Pennsylvania, These lignite beds oor all along the foot of 
the mountains, from Pole creek far south into New Mexico. Ihave 
ansas and south of Pole creek, to be 5,000 square miles. Very 
soon the two great railroads, U. ’P. R. Rs, and the P. R. R. E. D., 
will pass directly though these great coal fields, and then they will 
prove as important to this almost treeless west, as the coal fields 
of Pennsylvania are to the east. The organic remains show very 
clearly that all of these sap lignite deposits are of Tertiary age, 
and in an article on the lignite deposits of the west which I hope 
to prepare for the March number of this Journal, I shall be able 
on the pper in 
elevation of the Roc ym mounta a § or F waocnled t y the eee 
of the ite river Tertiary beds. en this great lignite basin 
most extensive and interesting deposits on the globe. All the 
facts which I P< st oo during this trip, only confirm the state- 
ments which I mad n article published in the Proceedings of 
the American Philosophidal Society, last winter, that the lignites of 
Colorado and those in the Naton mountains are only the southern 
extension of those so finely shown on the Upper Missouri. 
Il. —Editorial Note. 
Pror. G. Hiyricus, now of Iowa, is circulating, in connection 
with a resumé in French of a memoir of his, entitled Atom Me- 
chanics, a charge of plagiarism against the writer—and plagiarism 
from an article communicated for this Journal and refused Pee 
cation. 
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