582 PROCEEDINGS OF THE XEW YORK MEETING 



lication (with L. V. Pirsson). 482 pp. Charles Scribner's Sons, 

 New York. 

 On calaverite (with W. E. Ford). Ibid., xii, 225-246. 



1902. New occurrence of sperrylite (with H. L. Wells K Ibid., xiii, 95-96. 

 Use of the stereographic projection for geographical maps and sailing 



charts. Ibid., xiii, 245-275, 347-376. 

 On the solution of problems in crystallography by means of graphical 



methods based on spherical and plane trigonometry. Ibid., xiii, 



249-284. 

 Some additions to the alunite-jarosite gronp of minerals (with W. F. 



Hillebrand). Ibid., xiv, 211-220. 



1903. Tables of minerals, including the uses of minerals and statistics of the 



domestic production. 8°, 77 pp. (New Haven, Connecticut). 



1905. On crystal drawing. American Jounial of Science, xix, 39-75. 



On tychite. a new mineral from Borax lake, California, and on its arti- 

 ficial production and its relations to northupite (with G. S. Jamie- 

 son). Ibid., XX, 217-224. 



1906. On the drawing of crystals from stereographic and gnomonic projections. 



Ibid., xxi, 206-215. 

 Filter tubes for collection of precipitates on asbestos (with W. M. 



Bradley). Ibid., 4.53^66. 

 On stibiotantalite (with W. E. Ford). Ibid., xxii, 61-77. 



1907. On the chemical composition of amphibole (with F. C. Stanley). Ibid., 



xxiii, 23-51. 



MEMOIR OF ISRAEL C. RVS8ELL 

 BY BAILEY WILLIS 



A native of ISTew York by birth, Israel C. Eussell was at home eveiy- 

 where, through the intrepidity of his spirit and the breadth of his 

 interests. The arid plains of our West, or the snowy scarps of Saint 

 Elias, or the ash-strewn slopes of Pelee were to him equally alluring. 

 The unexplored challenged the inborn instinct of the explorer, which 

 dominated the aims of his life ; he delighted to attempt the unknown ; he 

 was independent and at ease in the wildest environment; and where in 

 the interest of science difficulty or danger were to be met, there he was 

 most resourceful, cool, and happy. On the other hand, he was restless 

 under routine; he chafed in harness; he rather endured than enjoyed the 

 comforts of conventional life, with the obligations they imposed. 



It is told of a colonial Eussell ancestor that when calling Sunday even- 

 ings on the lady whom he afterward married he would confine his remarks 

 to a greeting and a phrase of thanks on leaving for the pleasant visit he 

 had enjoyed. Silence ran in the family, but so also did a genial sense of 

 the pleasure of conversation. Outwardly the Eussell we knew was a 

 silent, self-contained man, from whom flashed occasionally a sally of keen 

 wit; but the external reserve covered a fertile mind and a warm kindly 



