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Region ; The Asphaltic Coal of New Brunswick ; The Discovery 
of Fossil Fish in the Coal Formation of New Brunswick. In the 
volume of the Proceedings of the Association of American Geol- 
ogists and Naturalists may he found a description by him of the 
Veins of Tin Ore in Jackson, N. H., and Remarks upon the Zinc, 
Copper, and Lead Ores of New Hampshire. In the volumes of 
the American Association for the Advancement of Science appear 
from his pen : Observations of a Mirage seen at Lake Superior ; 
Remarks on the Geology, Mineralogy and Mines of Keweenaw 
Point ; On Ancient Pot-holes in Rocks ; Description and Analysis 
of Allanite from Franklin, N. J. ; Description of Bismuthic Tel- 
lurium from Virginia ; On the Artificial Minerals from an Iron 
Furnace of Pennsylvania, and others. To the Proceedings of the 
American Academy of Arts and Sciences he contributed : Remarks 
upon a Large Vein of Phosphate of Lime, found at Hindstown, 
N. J. ; Analysis of Water; Analysis of Bornite from Georgia; 
Results of an Examination of the Frozen Well of Brandon, Vt. ; 
and an Analysis of a Meteoric Stone found in Dacotah. To the 
Memoirs of the Academy he contributed, jointly with Mr. Fran- 
cis Alger, a valuable paper upon the Mineralogy and Geology of 
Nova Scotia. In the American Quarterly Journal of Agriculture 
may be found Analyses of Soils made by him, and in the Boston 
Medical and Surgical Journal an article upon the Existence of 
Nitrogen in Plants and its origin in Animals. 
Nor were scientific papers by him communicated only to Amer- 
ican periodicals, for several may be found in those of Edinburgh 
and Paris, particularly in the Paris Comptes Rendus, where maybe 
found : Observations sur quelques Mines des ICtats Unis, et sur le 
Gres Rouge de Lac Superior; Courants Marines ; Nouveau gisement 
de Trilobites ; Sur les gisements de l’or dans le Georgie ; Sur la 
Bornite de Dahlonegra et sur les diamants de l’etat de Georgie ; 
and others. 
The more elaborate writings of Dr. Jackson are to be found in 
the several published geological reports made by him. His first 
Report upon the Geology of the State appeared in 1837, and was 
followed by the second in 1838, and the third in 1839. Those 
upon the Public Lands of Maine and Massachusetts were likewise 
published in the two former years. In 1840 his Final Report 
