geant, Plank, 'oo; Ist Corporal, Brady, 'oo; znd Corporal,
Hoover, 'oo; 3rd Corporal, Gage, 'oo; 4th Corporal, Ishler, 'ox;
sth Corporal, H. J. Hunsicker, 'ox; Clerk, Edwards, 'oo.
Company C: ist Sergeant, Weekes, 'oo; 2nd Sergeant, Berger,
'oo; 3rd Sergeant, Campbell, 'oo; 4th Sergeant, Schnure, 'oo;
sth Sergeant, Cypher, 'ox; xst Corporal, Bolard, 'oo; 2nd
Corporal, Dreher, 'oo; 3rd Corporal, McCleary, 'o1; 4th Corporal,
Kuhn, 'ox; sth Corporal, Rodgers, ox; Clerk, Morgan, 'oo.
Company D: Ist Sergeant, Scholl, 'ox; 2nd Sergeant, Buck
hout, 'oo; 3rd Sergeant, McKinley, 'oo; 4th Sergeant, Gill, 'oo;
sth Sergeant, Connell, 'oo; xst Corporal, E. J. Thompson, 'oo;
2nd Corporal, Haldeman, 'ox; 3rd Corporal, Fugate, 'ox; 4th
Corporal, Cure, 'o2; Clerk, Ruble, 'ox.
The second of the series of reports issued by the Mining De
partment on the building materials of the State, " The Clays and
Clay Industries of Western Pennsylvania," by Prof. T. C. Hop
kins and W. L. Affelder, '99, is now ready for distribution. Prof.
Hopkins is now working on a similar report on the clays of the
eastern part of the State.
The photographs of all graduates in the School of Mines from
'94 to '9B inclusive are being framed for hanging in the office of
the Department.
B. F. Williams, '95, has contributed to the Mining Department
Museum a very well preserved fossil of a tree trunk exhumed from
the Ross vein on the Red Ash Coal Co.'s lands.
The sixth number of Volume IV of The Mining Bulletin has
just been issued. The articles contained in it are " Some Sug
gestions for the Revisions of our Mining Laws," " The Schlicht
Process of Combustion," and " The Pig Iron Casting Machine in
England and in America." The first mentioned article contains
several mortality tables compiled by the Senior Miners. •
Prof. T. C. Hopkins will lecture on " The Geological Making
of Pennsylvania " before the members of the Altoona Mechanics
Library on February loth. The popularity of the Mining De
partment's free lecture system is rapidly extending westward.
The Jarden Brick Co. of Philadelphia, the largest ornamental
brick manufacturing company in the State, has sent a large col
lection of sample ornamental brick to the Mining Department.