Proceedings of the Colorado Scientific Society
The Proceedings record our meetings and papers from December, 1882 and is a window into Colorado when mining was king. They are also a repository for USGS preliminary papers from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.
“During the period 1929-53, publication of the Proceedings was partly supported by the Colorado Metal Mining Fund. This fund, financed by the mining companies, had been established to provide industry support for the cooperative mapping program between Colorado and the U.S. Geological Survey.” (1)
“Volumes 12 through 17, which cover the period from 1929 through 1956, consist almost entirely of preliminary reports on U.S. Geological Survey work. Most of these were superseded, but some were never followed up by final reports, hence remain as the last published word on certain areas or subjects.”(2)
(1) History of the Colorado Scientific Society 1882-2002 by Edwin B. Eckel et. al., page 28
(2) Ibid, page 29
These Volumes of the Proceedings are available:
Proceedings of the CSS, Vol 1, 1882-1884 – Has searchable text.
Proceedings of the CSS, Vol 2, 1885-1887 – Has searchable text.
Proceedings of the CSS, Vol 3, 1888-1890
Proceedings of the CSS, Vol 4, 1891-1893 (11.5 MB) – PDF with the entire contents of Volume 4 of The Proceedings. Text is not searchable.
Proceedings of the CSS, Vol 5, 1894-1896 (16 MB) – PDF with the entire contents of Volume 5 of The Proceedings. Text is searchable.
Proceedings of the CSS, Vol 6, 1897-1900 (15.1 MB) – PDF with the entire contents of Volume 6 of The Proceedings. Text is searchable.
Proceedings of the CSS, Vol 7, 1901-1904 (18 MB) – PDF with the entire contents of Volume 7 of The Proceedings. Text is not searchable.
Proceedings of the CSS, Vol 8, 1905-1907 (9 MB) – PDF with the entire contents of Volume 8 of The Proceedings. Text is not searchable.
Proceedings of the CSS, Vol 8 – some individual papers with hi-res photos
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Proceedings of the CSS, Vol 12, 1929-1931 – Text is not searchable.
Proceedings of the CSS, Vol 13, 1932-1938 – Text is not searchable.
Proceedings of the CSS, Vol 14, 1938-1946 – Text is not searchable.
Proceedings of the CSS, Vol 15, 1946-1952 – Text is not searchable.
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Proceedingsof the CSS, Vol 17, 1954-1956 – Has searchable text.
About the Proceedings of the Colorado Scientific Society
- The Society does not own a complete set of original copies of Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. We have most of Volumes 8-17 in our archives. All of the papers have been printed and put in notebooks for our records and preservation.
- Thanks to Beth Simmons, who extracted pages from HathiTrust.org and combined them to create the PDF for the papers in Volumes 1-10. The link for Hathi is:
HathiTrust.org archive of Proceedings of Colorado Scientific Society - Google did an excellent job of digitizing these Proceedings. In 1888 the CSS had donated copies of the Proceedings to Harvard. Now we have them back. Follow the link above and scroll up a little to see the receipt for them at Harvard.
- Limitations of the HathiTrust archive:
– Hathi has multiple volumes of the Proceedings run one after another.
– You can only copy a single page at a time on Hathi.
– Hathi has no table of contents, so you cannot search for authors or for keywords in titles.
– We add scanned foldouts and big maps to the scanned pages from Hathi. - Hathi does have more volumes of the Proceedings posted than we do. We are working on posting additional volumes.
- If you want to see a physical copy in Colorado, both the Denver Public Library and the Arthur Lakes Library at the Colorado School of Mines own complete sets of originals of the Proceedings.
Beth Simmons also scanned the pages in Volumes 11-17 and converted them into PDFs for the papers in these volumes. The Colorado Geological Survey scanned the large-scale geologic maps in Volumes 14, 15, and 17, which are available here as PDFs.
Proceedings of the CSS – Extra Copies of Papers for sale
After scanning and organizing the Proceedings of the Colorado Scientific Society, Beth Simmons saved two copies of each volume for the CSS archives. We are offering extra copies of papers for sale. To order copies, email Beth Simmons at cloverknoll@comcast.net to make arrangements. Cash/check only. The following PDF has details about the papers available:
Proceedings of the Colorado Scientific Society, papers for sale
