A1

Montgomery, Henry. “Elementary Science in the Public Schools.” Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 1892: 142-145.

Mineralogy and Geology professor Henry Montgomery’s article “Elementary Science in the Public Schools,” focused on science education and the importance of teachers having “good mental faculties” and a “high state of cultivation.” Montgomery wrote frequently in Science (there is no indication of the copyright holder for his works). He had two very brief columns in 1893, one describing the oolitic “sand” of the Great Salt Lake (a popular topic among early U of U professors) and another correcting a fellow geologist on the location of Soldier’s Summit, a site in Utah County for mining mineral wax; the offending author had said it was in Uintah and Emery County.

Type of Publisher
Commercial

Original Copyright Holder
Unknown. The publisher of the journal in 1889 was N. D. C. Hodges who had taken over from the previous publisher and editor Samuel H. Scudder in 1884. (See “150 Years of Advancing Science“) Hodges was based in New York City, NY. The Library of Congress managed copyright registrations (rather than the district courts) at that time, but no digitized entries exist for Hodges as publisher or Science as a periodical. None of the covers, front matter, or individual articles from the 1880s include a copyright notice.

Historical Article Distribution and Current Market
3,000 individual subscribers in 1892 to the journal under its title at the time, Science: A Weekly Record of Scientific Progress. Currently, Science is held by 3,555 libraries. The article is available for individual purchase.

Times Cited
0

Digital Archive
JSTOR

A2

Montgomery, Henry. “Prehistoric Man in Utah.” The Archaeologist, August 1894.

Although not his discipline at the time, Henry Montgomery wrote one of the first series of articles on archaeology in Utah published in the August, October, and November issues of The Archaeologist, a monthly magazine organized in January 1893 by The Archaeologist Publishing Company in Waterloo, Indiana. It became a copyrighted title of Landon Printing and Publishing Company of Columbus, OH in 1895. The archaeology department at the University of Utah did not exist until 1914 when it was started by Professor Byron Cummings. Montgomery’s 1894 article reported on excavations in Juab, Piute, and Emery counties.

Type of Publisher
Commercial

Original Copyright Holder
Unknown. Rights holder eventually became Landon Printing and Publishing.

Historical Article Distribution and Current Market
Historical distribution unknown. The magazine was started by Augustus Charles Gruhlke, a German immigrant, railroad worker, and inventor according to Gruhlke’s obituary “Waterloo Inventor Found Lifeless” originally published in The Waterloo Press in 1935 and republished on Find-a-Grave. According to an editorial in the second volume of the magazine, Warren K. Moorehead, professor of archaeology at Ohio State University’s, served as editor and solicited contributions from “recognized anthropologists,” but the magazine’s audience, according to the editorial, was collectors. An advertisement in the same volume offered readers free subscriptions valued at $1 per year if they secured up to four new yearly subscribers and the editorial urged readers to mention the magazine to fellow collectors. This suggests the publishing company did not employ subscription agents or sales personnel. The editorial indicates that subscriptions and advertisements were managed by the business office in Waterloo, Indiana, likely by Gruhlke as owner. The advertisement also shows that shares of the company sold for $25 with an option to pay by installments of $0.20. The journal became the “official organ of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society” based in Columbus, OH which the editor Moorehead had an affiliation with as museum curator. Currently, The Archaeologist is held by 27 libraries and the article is for sale by Nabu Press.

Times Cited
7

Digital Archive
Internet Archive

A3

Coray, George Q. “The University of Utah.” The American University Magazine, May 1895: 141-158.

University Librarian George Q. Coray published an article on the University’s history and provided several images of the main building, laboratories, museum, and library. The University was still in its location on 3^rd west. The magazine was based in New York City and the mission was to cover news and events across higher education in the country. The publisher was American University Magazine Publishing Company and charged $2.50 a year to subscribe to the magazine ($0.25 for one volume). It included several advertisements from local businesses and colleges. There was no indication they served as the copyright holder.

Type of Publisher
Commercial

Original Copyright Holder
Unknown

Historical Article Distribution and Current Market
A. U. Faulkner and Spenser O. M. Ovington served as editors and issued the magazine monthly under the guidance of a Board of Directors representing several higher education institutions. The title is not included in the American Periodicals Index. No business records or archival holdings could be located to determine number of subscribers or distribution. 33 libraries currently hold the title and the article is for sale by Nabu Press.

Times Cited
0

Digital Archive
HathiTrust

A4

Merrill, Joseph F. “Influence of the Surrounding Dielectric on the Conductivity of Copper Wire.” Physical Review (Series I) 8, no. 2 (February 1899): 112-127.

Physics and engineering professor Joseph Merrill wrote his first journal article in 1899. The paper refuted several researchers who argued that a modification to Ohm’s law was necessary. Merrill, through a comparative method he devised, tested conductivity with several dielectrics and concluded that Ohm’s law did not need modifying.

Type of Publisher
Commercial. According to the American Physical Society, the journal was started by Edward L. Nichols, a professor at Cornell University in 1893 with colleague Ernest Merritt who served as co-editor. Macmillan & Co published the journal according to historical copyright records and A Memoir on the Physical Review by Paul Hartman, a brief history of the journal.

Original Copyright Holder
Unknown. Macmillan & Co. has a copyright entry in 1893 for Physical Review, but no entry for 1899.

Historical Article Distribution and Current Market
Distribution of the first volume (1893) was 1,000 copies (source: Paul Hartman, “A Memoir on the The Physical Review” Woodbury, NY: American Institute of Physics,1994, pg. 26). Currently, 1,157 libraries hold the journal and the article is for sale by Nabu Press.

Times Cited
0

Digital Archive
American Physical Society

A5

Talmage, James E. “A “Sand-Bow”–An Unusual Optical Phenomenon.” Science 13, no. 338 (1901): 1901.

Geology Professor James E. Talmage, who became President of the University of Utah in 1894, Talmage documented the rare occurrence of a sand-bow where the oolitic sand that Montgomery wrote about in 1892 reflected light to create a rainbow much like dew and moisture produce

Type of Publisher
Commercial

Original Copyright Holder
Unknown. The publisher of the journal in 1889 was N. D. C. Hodges who had taken over from the previous publisher and editor Samuel H. Scudder in 1884. (See “150 Years of Advancing Science“) Hodges was based in New York City, NY. The Library of Congress managed copyright registrations (rather than the district courts) at that time, but no digitized entries exist for Hodges as publisher or Science as a periodical. None of the covers, front matter, or individual articles from the 1880s include a copyright notice.

Historical Article Distribution and Current Market
3,000 subscribers in 1894 to the journal under its title at the time, Science: A Weekly Record of Scientific Progress. Currently, Science is held by 3,555 libraries. The article is available for individual purchase.

Times Cited
0

Digital Archive
JSTOR

A6

Talmage, James E. “The Great Salt Lake.” The Scottish Geographical Magazine 17, no. 12 (December 1901): 617-644.

Deseret Professor of Geology James Talmage, the first endowed chair at the University, published a thirty-seven page report on the Great Salt Lake in order to provide a much-needed update on the lake, especially the composition of the water. Encyclopedias and textbooks had not been updated since Howard Stansbury’s 1850 survey for the U.S. government. Talmage forded the lake on horseback or by carriage to conduct his research over the course of six years (1889-1895). He covered the history of exploration of the lake, the lake’s water life as well as its industrial and recreational use.

Type of Publisher
Society

Original Copyright Holder
Unknown. The Scottish Geographical Society published the magazine. It was printed by T. and A. Constable, printers of her majesty at the University Press. Hugh A. Webster and Arthur Silva White served as editors at the inaugural issue (1885). By 1901, the editors were James Geikie and George Sandeman.

Historical Article Distribution and Current Market
All Scottish Geographical Society members received the magazine monthly by mail. In 1885, a year after the society started, membership stood at 1,045. Membership numbers were not indicated for 1901/1902, the year Talmage published. The article is currently for sale by Taylor & Francis.

Times Cited
1

Digital Archive
HathiTrust

A7

Talmage, James E. “Lake Bonneville—the Predecessor of the Great Salt Lake.” Scottish Geographical Magazine 18, no. 9 (1902): 449-471.

Talmage wrote an accompanying piece to his Great Salt Lake paper about Lake Bonneville in a 1902 essay.

Type of Publisher
Society

Original Copyright Holder
Unknown. The Scottish Geographical Society published the magazine. It was printed by T. and A. Constable, printers of her majesty at the University Press. Hugh A. Webster and Arthur Silva White served as editors at the inaugural issue (1885). By 1901, the editors were James Geikie and George Sandeman.

Historical Article Distribution and Current Market
All Scottish Geographical Society members received the magazine monthly by mail. In 1885, a year after the society started, membership stood at 1,045. Membership numbers were not indicated for 1901/1902, the year Talmage published. The article is currently for sale by Taylor & Francis.

Times Cited
0

Digital Archive
HathiTrust

A8

Beckstrand, Elias Hyrum, and F.C. French. “Tests of Brick.” University of Utah Bulletin (University of Utah) 1 (September 1908): 32.

By 1908, the school of engineering had several laboratories “very thoroughly and completely equipped for experimental work—both illustrative and research work” (University of Utah 1908). The school, called the State School of Mines at the time, wished to “present in the form of bulletins the results of the researches in the various laboratories” (ibid.). Bulletins were printed by a number of different Salt Lake City printers: Century Printing, Skelton Printing, Arrow Press, University Press, and F.W. Gardiner Press. The documents do not indicate copyright ownership and only the 1912 bulletin listed a price of $0.50.

Mechanical Engineering professor Elias Beckstrand and Civil Engineering Professor F.C. French served as the primary authors on the first bulletin “Tests of Brick.” Senior civil engineering students Joseph Hunter and O. A. Peterson conducted the experimental work. Chemistry instructor Kenneth Williams provided the chemical analysis. The researchers sought to publish “the properties and qualities of the building material manufactured in the State of Utah and the western state generally” for engineers and builders since the engineering literature lacked such information. Over the course of a year, the authors collected samples from almost all the brick manufacturers in the state and selected them at random for testing. The experiments tested for “crushing strength, for shearing strength, and for transverse strength; also for the absorption of water, for weathering, and for chemical constituents.”

Type of Publisher
University

Original Copyright Holder
Unknown.

Historical Article Distribution and Current Market
Currently held by nine libraries. Article is not for sale.

Times Cited
0

Digital Archive
University of Utah

A9

Beckstrand, Elias Hyrum. “Tests of Macadam Rock.” University of Utah Bulletin (University of Utah) 2 (March 1909): 1-15.

Beckstrand was the sole author on bulletin number two, “Tests of Macadam Rock.” The work, however, was done in conjunction with the Salt Lake City Engineer’s Office to test stone for road building. The University built a road-testing laboratory in order to complete the research.

Type of Publisher
University

Original Copyright Holder
Unknown.

Historical Article Distribution and Current Market
Currently held by nine libraries. Article is not for sale.

Times Cited
0

Digital Archive
University of Utah

A10

Lyman, Richard R. “The Construction and Maintenance of Earth Roads.” Utah Engineering Experiment Station (University of Utah) 3 (January 1910): 1-12.

This article served as bulletin number three and continued the investigation described in A10 (bulletin number two). The authors, Richard Lyman, worked for the newly established Engineering Experiment Station.

Type of Publisher
University

Original Copyright Holder
Unknown.

Historical Article Distribution and Current Market
Currently held by twelve libraries. Article is not for sale.

Times Cited
0

Digital Archive
University of Utah