KKPORT OF DEPARTMENT OF METALLURGY. 



Bented by the Philadelphia and Reading Goal and iron Oomp 

 Pottsville, Pa, 



A scries representing the coal and its associates from the Long Vat- 

 ley iiiines. Presented by the Barclay Coal Company, Barclay, La. 

 A series of coal and its associates, together with mining tools, from 



the Loyal Sock mine. Presented by the State Line and Sullivan Kail 

 road Company. 



Four photographs of anthracite breakers. Presented by C.eorge M. 

 Bretz, Pottsville, La. 



Three photographs of mine engines. Presented by Richard Sharps, 

 jr., & Co., Wilkes Bane, Pa. 



A series of gas coal and its associates from the Crescent mines. West 

 Virginia. Presented by W, B. Johnson, Crescent, W. Va. 



A series of coal and its associates from the Antrim mines. Presented 

 by the Pall Brook Coal Company, Corning, N. Y. 



A series of coal and its associates, together with mining tools> l^oro 

 the Arnot mine. Presented by the Blossburgh Coal Company, Elmira, 

 N. Y. 



A series of safety lamps, &c. Presented by J. W. Queen & Co., Phila - 

 delphia, Pa. 



Quite a number of the recent graduates of some of the technical 

 schools were very glad to visit some of the centers of metallurgical 

 operations to make collections for the department upon the payment 

 of their expenses while so engaged. The collections acquired in this 

 way are among the most interesting and valuable that we have obtained,, 

 since they were made with the definite purpose of exhibition in the 

 Museum, and therefore are better suited for permanent purposes. Mr. 

 E. B. Kirby, E. M., of Saint Louis, Mo., made collections representing: 

 the mining of the free copper ore of the amygdaloid class at the Osceola 

 Mine, Lake Superior, and also the mining and milling of the conglom- 

 erate ore at the Delaware Mine, Lake Superior ; a collection of showy 

 zinc ore specimens from Missouri; a collection representing the manu- 

 facture of pig-lead and white paint direct from the ore, from the Lone 

 Elm Works, Jopliu, Mo.; and a collection representing the mining of 

 coal at Belleville, 111. At Mr. Kirby's solicitation, Captain Daniels, o$' 

 the Osceola mine, presented some interesting specimens representing the. 

 association of the free silver and free copper in the Lake Superior dis- 

 trict, and Mr. J. A. Reeves, of Joplin, Mo., presented some very hand- 

 some crystallized specimens of blende, galena, and marcasire. Mr. E. 

 L. Zukoski, E. M., of Saint Louis, Mo., collected at the Osceola Mill and 

 Central Mine, Lake Superior; at the Kansas City Smelting and Refining 

 Company's Works, Argentine, Kans. ; at the Rich Hill Zinc Furnaces, 

 Rich Hill, Mo. j at the Cherokee Zinc Works, Weir City, Kans. ; at the 

 Nova Scotia Furnace, Salem, Mo. ; and at the Mount Olive and Collins- 

 ville coal regions, in Illinois. Messrs. Kirby and Zukoski together made 

 a very large collection representing the manufacture of Bessemer steeJ 



