FROM THE ARCHIVES

Crystallography

• "The largest crystals" P. Rickwood (1981)

• "The largest crystal" C. Palache (1932)

• "The size of crystals" C. Frondel (1935)

• "Selective incrustation of minerals" C. Frondel (1937)

• ""Pressure-shadows" and the measurement of the orientation of minerals in rocks" A. Pabst (1931)

• "Multiple twins of diamond and sphalerite" C. Palache (1932)

• "The genesis of twin crystals" M. Buerger (1945)

• "The frequency of twin types in quartz crystals" H. Gault (1949)

• "Screw dislocations and charge balance as factors of crystal growth" S. Hendricks (1955)

• "Growth mechanisms and polytypism in synthetic hydroxyl-bearing phlogopite" A. Baronnet (1972)

• "Growth spirals on kaolin group minerals" Sunagawa & Koshino (1975)

• "A TEM study of fibrous cuprite (chalcotrichite): microstructures and growth mechanisms" D. Veblen & J. Post (1983)

• "Formation rates of calc-silicate minerals deposited inside drillhole casing, Ngatamariki geothermal field, New Zealand" Browne et al (1989)

• "Epitaxial marcasite on pyrite from Rennselaer, Indiana" K. Brock & L. Slater (1978)

Mineral Properties

• "The origins of color in minerals" K. Nassau (1978)

• "The coloring and thermoluminescence produced in transparent minerals and gems by radium radiation" S. Lind & D. Bardwell (1923)

• "The cause of color in smoky quartz and amethyst" E. Holden (1925)

• "Types of coloring in minerals " T. Kennard & D. Howell (1941)

• ""Blue Dragon" basalt from Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho: Origin of color"  G. Faye & R. Miller (1973)

• "Optical spectroscopy of green vanadium apophyllite from Poona, India" G. Rossman (1974)

• "Coloring mechanisms in celestite" L. Bernstein (1979)

• "Monazite from North Carolina having the alexandrite effect" L. Bernstein (1983)

• "Titanium and the color of staurolite" C. Ward (1984)

• "Origin and significance of blue coloration in quartz from Llano rhyolite (llanite), northcentral Llano County, Texas" M. Zolensky et. al. (1988)

• "Origin of color in cuprian elbaite from São José de Batalha, Paraíba, Brazil" G. Rossman, E. Fritsch, J. Shigley (1991)

• "On the cause of asterism in star corundum" K. Nassau (1968)

• "Image projection by fibrous minerals" G. Baur, W. Larsen L. Sand (1957)

• "Tubular voids within labradorite phenocrysts from Sonora, Mexico" J. Gutmann (1974)

• "Manganese and lead as coactivators of red fluorescence in halite" K. Murata & R. Smith (1946)

• "Experiments in x-ray irradiation of gem stones" F. Pough & T. Rogers (1947)

• "Some factors influencing fluorescence in minerals" D. McDougall (1952)

• "The "microhardness" of minerals comprising the Mohs scale" H. Hodge & J. McKay (1934)

• "Variation of hardness in the diamond" E. Kraus & C. Slawson (1939)

• "The grinding hardness of diamond in a principal cutting direction" R. Denning (1957)

• "The Knoop microhardness tester as a mineralogical tool" H. Winchell (1945)

Mineral Specimens

• "How to etch meteorites" Editors (1917)

• "Developing crystallized mineral specimens " A. Hawkins (1917)

• "The preservation of mineral specimens" A. Parsons (1922)

• "Additional data concerning the preservation of mineral specimens" A. Parsons (1926)

• "The scientific valuation of minerals" G. English (1927) 

Minerals

• "Apatite crystals with colored cores in Victorian granitic rocks" G. Baker (1941)

• "Aphthitalite from Kilauea" H. Washington & H. Merwin (1921)

• "An unusual hourglass structure in augite" J. Preston (1966)

• "Crystallographic notes: cahnite, stolzite, zincite, ultrabasite" C. Palache (1941)

• "Canbyite, a new mineral" A. Hawkins & V. Shannon (1924)

• "Chalcopyrite crystals from the Bergen Archways" (1919)

• "Darkening of cinnabar in sunlight" R. Dreyer (1938)

• "Identification of diamond in the Canyon Diablo iron"  C. Ksanda & E. Henderson(1939) - meteorites

• "An X-ray study of the domeykite group" L. Ramsdell (1929)

• "Euclase from Santa do Encoberto, Minas Gerais, Brazil " G. Graziani G. Guidi (1980)

• "Gold crystals from the Southern Appalachians" S. Taber (1942)

• "Gratonite-preliminary description of a new mineral from Cerro de Pasco, Peru" C. Palache & D. Fisher (1939)

• "Hetaerolite from the Rodna base metal ore deposit: A new occurrence" G. Udubasa et. al. (1973)

• "The hydration of kernite" S. Muessig R. Allen (1957)

• "Twisted millerite crystals" A. Hawkins (1933)

• "Authigenic mitridatite from the Shungura Formation, southwestern Ethiopia" R. Rogers & F. Brown (1979)

• "Natural α-silicon carbide" J. Bauer et al (1963)(moissanite)

• "Rock-forming moissanite (natural α-silicon carbide)" S. Di Pierro et. al. (2003)

• "A new occurrence and x-ray study of mosesite" P. Bird (1932)

• "Fibrous intergrowths of cross muscovite and cross chlorite from shear zones of Pennsylvanian carbonaceous rocks in Rhode Island" M. Rutstein (1979)

• "Priceite from Furnace Creek, Inyo County, California" W. Foshag (1924)

• "Absence of pyrite from certain zeolite localities" J. Lewis (1916)

• "Fibrous pyrite from the lead-zinc district of Illinois" K. Born (1934)

• "Notes on the triclinic pyroxenes" A. Winchell (1927)

• Quartz
  "Nomenclature of Silica" G. Hart (1927) 
  "Natural History of Silica Minerals" A. Rogers (1928)
  "Geology of quartz crystal deposits" R. Stoiber, C. Tolman, R. Butler (1945)
  "Iris Agate" Jones (1952)
  "Characters of quartz fibers" C. Frondel (1978)

• "The light-induced alteration of realgar to pararealgar" Douglass et al. (1992)

• "Composition, specific gravity and refractive indices of rhodochrosite ; rhodochrosite from Butte, Montana" R. Wayland (1942)

• "Primary native silver ores at Batopilas, Mexico, and Bullard's Peak, New Mexico" P. Krieger (1935)(pdf)

• "Cuprian sphalerite and a probable copper-zinc sulfide, Cachiyuyo de Llampos, Copiapó, Chile" A. Clark & R. Sillitoe (1970)

• "Sulfide Phase Equilibria" J. Craig & S. Scott (1974) Short Course Notes #1.

• "Identification of the commoner tellurides" F. Galbraith (1940)

• "Triplite crystals from Colorado" C. Wolfe & E. Heinrich (1947)

• "Xanthoconite and associated minerals from the General Petite mine, Atlanta district, Idaho" E. Shannon (1928)

• "Native zinc and α-Cu,Zn from Mina Dulcinea de Llampos, Copiapó, Chile" A. Clark & R. Sillitoe (1970)

• "Zunyite from Guatemala" C. Palache (1932)

• Miscellaneous Notes (1921-1928)

Gemstones

• "The hiddenite occurrence in North Carolina" Davidson (1927) 

• "A terrestrial source of ureyite" Chui Mei Ou Yang (1984)

• "Lazulite in an unusual form" G. Merrill (1918)

• "Mineralogy of the Louvres Merovingian garnet cloisonné jewelry: Origins of the gems of the first kings of France" Farges (1998)

Fossils

• "Replacement of calcite by gypsum" R. Rettger (1924)
• "Llama bones of lead-copper mineralization from Bolivia" C. Milton (1955)

• "Sulfide replacements of a trigocarpus fossil fern fruit" W. Keller (1947)

Localities - United States

• "Famous mineral localities: Mt. Mica, Mt. Apatite and other localities in Maine" J. Manchester & W. Bather (1918)

• "The chrysoberyl pegmatite of Hartford, Maine" C. Palache (1924)

• "The paragenesis of the granite pegmatites of central Maine" K. Landes (1925)
  "Quartz pseudomorphs" C. Palache & K. Landes (1925)

• "On the origin of some pegmatites in the town of Newry, Maine" B. Shaub (1940)

• "The geology and paragenesis of the Lord Hill pegmatite" H. Woodward (1951)

• "The granite of Conway, New Hampshire, and its druse minerals" J. Gillson (1927)

• "A mineralogical pilgrimage thru Connecticut" C. Hoadley (1917)

• "The old cobalite mine in Chatham, Conn." E. Shannon (1921)

• "The old tungsten mine in Trumbull, Connecticut" E. Shannon (1921)

• "Mineral localities in the vicinity of Middletown, Connecticut" W. Foye (1922)

• "The Branchville, Connecticut, Pegmatite" V. Shainin (1946)

• "Notes on the mineral localities of Rhode Island I. Providence county" Fisher & Gedney (1926)

• "Notes on the mineral localities of Rhode Island Part II remaining counties" Fisher & Doll (1927)

• "Some crystal localities in St. Lawrence county, New York" W. Miller (1921)

• Franklin, New Jersey
  "Mineralogical notes on Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey" C. Palache (1928)
  "The phosphorescence and fluorescence of Franklin minerals" C. Palache (1928)
  "Larsenite, Calcium-larsenite and the associated minerals at Franklin, New Jersey" C. Palache, L. Bauer, H. Berman (1928)
  "Friedelite, Schallerite, and related minerals" L. Bauer & H. Berman (1928)
  "Norbergite from Franklin, New Jersey" E. Larsen, L. Bauer, H. Berman (1928)
  "The origin of the zinc deposits at Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey" W. Tarr (1929)
  " Contributions to the mineralogy of Sterling Hill, New Jersey: Morphology of graphite, arsenopyrite, pyrite and arsenic" C. Palache (1941)

• "The minerals of the Bergen Archways" J. Manchester (1919) NJ Zeolites

• "A fulgurite from South Amboy, New Jersey" W. Myers & A. Peck (1925) 

• "The P. M. S. excursion to Falls of French Creek" H. Trudell (1916)

• "Famous mineral localities. 3. Amelia Court House, Virginia" S. Gordon (1918)

• "Unusual feldspar crystals at Moneta,Virginia" J. Benn (1932)

• "Magnet Cove Arkansas and vicinity" W. Haltom (1929)

• "A paragenetic classification of the Magnet Cove minerals" K. Landes (1931)

• "Minerals of the saline domes of the Texas-Louisiana coastal Plain" Hawkins (1918)

• "The Barringer Hill, Texas, Pegmatite" K. Landes (1932) 

• "Euhedral orthoclase crystals from Sierra Blanca, Texas" J. Lonsdale (1927) 

• "Mirabilite from the Isle Royale Copper Mine, Houghton, Michigan" A. Peck (1917)

• "The origin of the mirabilite from the Isle Royale Mine" A. Lane (1917)

• "Eakleite from Isle Royale, Michigan" W. Foshag & E. Larsen (1922)

• "Some unusual specimens of 'float' copper" E. Kraus (1924) - Michigan

• "Some minerals of the Keweenawan copper deposits: Pumpellyite, a new mineral; sericite; saponite" C. Palache & H. Vassar (1925)

• "An Illinois record copper erratic" A. Crook (1929)

• "An unusual occurrence of halite" K. Spiroff (1937)

• "Microcline in the native copper deposits of Michigan" I. Klein (1939)

• "Paramelaconite and associated minerals from the Algomah mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan" S. Williams (1962)

• "Crystals of rammelsbergite and algodonite" S. Williams (1963)

• "Anthonyite and calumetite, two new minerals from the Michigan copper district" S. Williams (1963)

• "Copper-nickel arsenides of the Mohawk No. 2 mine, Mohawk, Keweenaw Co., Michigan" P.Moore (1971) 

• "Marcasite from the Racine dolomite, Racine, Wisconsin" C. Cook (1924)

• "Occurrence of Millerite at Milwaukee, Wisconsin" B. Bagrowski (1940)

• "Nickel minerals from near Linden, Iowa Co., Wisconsin" A. Heyl, C. Milton J. Axelrod (1959)

• "Notes on sand calcite from South Dakota" H. Wanless (1922)

• "The Black Hills Mineral Region" G. Schwartz (1928)

• "Pegmatite dikes of the Bridger Mountains, Wyoming" T. McLaughlin (1940)

• "Granite pegmatites of the Mt. Antero region, Colorado" G. Switzer (1939)

• "Fluorite-rare earth mineral pegmatites of Chaffee and Fremont counties, Colorado" E. Heinrich (1948)

• "Native tellurium from northwest of Silver City, New Mexico" G. Ballmer (1932)

• "Iceland spar in New Mexico" V. Kelley (1940)

• "An occurrence of witherite in the Altyn limestone at Many Glacier, Montana" M. Fuller (1924)

• Fairfield, Utah
  "The mineralogy and paragenesis of the varisite nodules from near Fairfield, Utah - part 1" E. Larsen 3d. (1942)
  "The mineralogy and paragenesis of the varisite nodules from near Fairfield, Utah - part 2" E. Larsen 3d. (1942)
  "The mineralogy and paragenesis of the varisite nodules from near Fairfield, Utah - part 3" E. Larsen 3d. (1942)

• "Some minerals of the Stanley antimony mine" E. Shannon (1918)

• "An Arizona gold nugget of unusual size" R. Heineman (1931)

• "Phosphate Minerals in the Castle Dome Copper Deposit, Arizona" N. Peterson (1947)

• "Barite and witherite from near El Portal, Mariposa County, California" A. Fitch (1931)

• Crestmore, California
  "Famous mineral localities: Crestmore, Riverside County, California" E. Eakle (1927)
  "Section across Commercial Quarry, Crestmore, California" A. Woodford et. al. (1941)
  "Crestmore sky blue marble, its linear thermal expansion and color " J. Rosenholtz and D. Smith (1950)

• "Famous mineral localities: Furnace Creek, Death Valley" W. Foshag (1924)

• "Crystallization phenomena in volcanic ejecta from Kilauea, Hawaii" R. Chapman (1947) 

Localities - World

• "The selenite caves of Naica, Mexico" W. Foshag (1927) 

• "Gold-nickel mineralization at Alistos, Sinola, Mexico" P. Krieger & A. Hagner (1943)

• "Långban and its minerals" G. Flink (1926)

• "The minerals of Pribram" F. Slavik (1927)

• "Alpine mineral deposits" I. Campbell (1927)

• "A chemical study of the yellow incrustations on the Vesuvian lava of 1631" F. Zambonini & G. Carobbi (1927)

• "Minerals of Vesuvius" A. Pelloux (1927)

• "Mineralogical Observations on the Northern Excursion" Hurlbut (1938) USSR

• "Minerals of the Kola Peninsula" A. Fernsman (1926)

• "Ore minerals in a polymetallic deposit of Primorye, U.S.S.R." V. Kazachenko et. al (1979)

• "Some minerals from Madagascar" L. Gratacap (1916)

• "Sodium carbonate minerals of the Mogadi Lakes, British East Africa" P. Walther (1922)

• "Famous mineral localities: Wodgina, North West Australia" E. Simpson (1928)

• ""Zebra" rock" D. Trainer Jr. (1931)

• "On the mineralogy of Antarctica" D. Srewart, Jr. (1951)

Meteorites

• "Two new iron meteorites from Chile and Texas" C. Palache & F. Gonyer (1932)

Techniques

• "Assaying with the blowpipe; lead, copper and silver ores" W. Hunt (1924)
• "A saw attachment adapting Goldschmidt's model cutting machine to the sawing of wooden models" C. Palache & L. Lewis (1927)
• "A set of thirty immersion media" R. Emmons (1929)
• "A mounting medium of 1.66 index of refraction" B. Keller (1934)
• "Recent developments in high index resins" A. Alexander (1934)
• "Statistically most probable stoichiometric formulae" W. Dollase & W. Newman (1984)

Nomenclature

• "Summary of recommendations of AIPEA nomenclature committee on clay minerals" S. Bailey (1980)
• "Nomenclature for regular interstratifications " S. Bailey (1982)
• "A system of nomenclature for rare-earth mineral species: Revision and extension"  P. Bayliss A. Levinson (1988)

History

• "Arthur Chamberlain and his magazines" A. Bates (1916)

• "First annual Meeting of the Mineralogical Society of America" (1921)

• "On naming minerals" H. McKinstry (1929)

• "The first ten years of the Mineralogical Society of America." E. Kraus (1930)

• "Charles-Francois du Fay, a pioneer in crystal optics" A. Pabst (1932)

• "A Notable Centennial in American Mineralogy" Dana's "System of Mineralogy" (1938)

• "The Rowe Collection" A. Wilkerson (1941)

• "Edward Henry Kraus" W. Hunt (1955)

• "The American Mineralogist: Its first four years" G. Phair (1969)

• "The founding of the Mineralogical Society of America" G, Phair (1969)

• Roebling Medal Presentations
  "Presentation of the first Roebling medal to Charles Palache" E. Kraus (1938)
  "Presentation of the second Roebling medal of the MSA to Waldemar T. Schaller" E. Larsen (1939) 
  "Presentation of the third Roebling medal of MSA to Leonard James Spencer" A. N. Winchell (1941) 
  "Presentation of the (fourth) Roebling Medal of the MSA to Esper S. Larsen, Jr." (1942) C. Ross
  "Presentation of the Roebling medal of the MSA to Edward H. Kraus" (1945) W. Hunt 
  "Presentation of the sixth Roebling medal of MSA to Clarence S. Ross" W. T. Schaller (1947) 
  "Presentation of the (seventh) Roebling medal of MSA to Paul Niggli" E. Kraus (1948)
  "Presentation of the Roebling Medal to Walter F. Hunt" L. Ramsdell (1958)
  "Presentation of the Roebling Medal to Hans-Peter Eugster" D. Wones (1984)

• Memorials
  "The crystallographic work of Gustavus Hinrichs"C. Keyes (1924)
  "Washington Roebling"  A. Phillips (1927) 
  "Frederick Canfield"  C. Palache(1927) 
  "Lazard Cahn" C. Palache (1941)
  "Edward Salisbury Dana" W. Ford (1936)
  "Memorial of George Letchworth English" R. Vance (1945)
  "Alexander Evgenievich Fersman" L. Spencer (1946)
  "Gerald Loughlin" W. Burbank (1947)
  "Austin Flint Rogers" P. Kerr (1958)
  "Memorial of Alfred Cary Hawkins" G. Faust (1959) 
  "Memorial of Edgar Theodore Wherry" G. Phair (1984)

• Haüy 175th birthday celebration (1918) "Father of Crystallography"
  "The Abbé René-Just Haüy celebration"
  "The life and work of Haüy" George Kunz
  "An outline of the life of René-Just Haüy" G. F. Black
  "René-Just Haüy and his influence" H. P. Whitlock
  "Haüy's Traité de Minéralogie" L. P. Gratacap
  "Haüy's contribution to our knowledge of isomorphism" E. H. Kraus
  "Haüy, the "Father of Crystallography"" F. D. Adams
  "Haüy's law of rational intercepts" A. J. Moses
  "Modern extensions of Haüy's laws of crystallography" E. T. Wherry

Presidential Addresses (History of Mineralogy & State of Art)

• "The future of mineralogy in America" E. Kraus (1921) - early history of US mineralogy

• "At the surface of a crystal" E. T. Wherry (1924)

• "The modern study of mineralogy" H. S. Washington (1925) 

• "Mineral replacements in pegmatites" W. T. Schaller (1926)

• "The temperatures of magmas" E. Larsen (1929)

• "Some associations of ore minerals" H. Merwin (1931)

• "Mente et malleo atque catino" N. Bowen (1938)

• "History of the study of ore minerals" E. Thomson (1939)

• "Methods and Instruments used in Mineralogy" F. Wright (1942)

• "Geological Mineralogy" K. Landes (1946) 

• "Alteration Studies" P. Kerr (1947)

• "Prospect of mineralogy" M. Peacock (1949)

• "Screw dislocations and charge balance as factors of crystal growth" S. Hendricks (1955)

• "The fluids in salt" E. Roedder (1984)

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