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BIRD LOVERS will have an opportunity on Jen. 15 of attending an Audubon Seven, Tou, featuring Robert Peterson. He will be in Sita Chy Recreation Dept. ie’ program will be held at the University Junior High School erect 1000 Red River Street, starting at 8: Mi Peer athe aut of “A Feld Gls Texas Birds,’ which is now being published by Ses in Stoss use known to Texas. This book is by the Texas Game end. Fish Commlecon Thee will be 25,000 copes the Enein Sales on a cost basis be handled through the Game and Fish It is expected the book will be available by late in the year and public announcements will be made when a definite publication date In his appearance in Texas Peterson will give an illustrated travel talk with all color motion pictures. His subject will be Wild Amer ica, in which he will tell of the bird life around America. Famed as an artist and lecturer, Dr. Peter gon perhaps is the best known bird man in the United States. THE WEST TEXAS BOW HUNTERS ASSN. held a bi-monthly meeting on Monday, Jan. 5, at the Plains Archery Shop. 3110 Mth Sting cone Frur mena pe hun will be trail , and turn in the ears each meeting night of the Asen. Three Lubbock archers — Chuck Schooler, Sack Bee, and Jessie Roberts—missed a Sos taut of teeency tact they were on over the past weekend. This trio of bow hunt Sepeeenee 5 SS rabbiin Se: Ritoe Saye ot ting. The Asm. meets on the first and third Mon days of each month. Visitors and archers are always welcome. TEE LUBBOCK GEMae MINERAL SOCIETY, officially named Tuesday night, Jan. 6, is the newest outdoor organization on the South Plains. Interest in this organization os teal uisicne mae gemma rapidly. The Society is characterized by good leader ship, and plans call for program designed to increase knowledge for members by lectures, and field tripe. The first such lecture was given by Society President Ed Zakauckas, Jr. His subject dealt a “Hardness,” the essence of which for one of the basic methods of mineral iden tification is hardness. Over many years mineralogists, such as Pfaff, Jagger, Rosival, Knopp, Peters, and yielded different results, in addition to being In this last century Frederick Mohs devised a simple, useable scale based on the ability of a harder mineral to scratch a softer one. Tie selected a series of ten minerals each of which is harder than the one before it in the scale. To the scale, he gave the number one, and to , the ha: natural sub stance, number 10. The numbers on the scale do not indicate ane te ae cheno: yy beng rubbed with the oe ee ~ P Gypeum, whh various forms, and ,— in our locality, can be, scratched Calcitee's life harder, but it will yield to scratching by a copper coin. Fluorite is number four, and while it comes in several attractive colors it is still too soft to be very usable gem material. Apatite, number five, can be scratched by a good steel knife. Just above apatite, at 5.5, is glass. Number six is orthoclase, a feldapart of the mineral group which includes the gem materials moonstone, amazonite, peristerite ,and sunstone. These and all below them in hardness can be scratched by a good steel file. Number seven is quartz in its various forms. This is our commonest gem material, so any thing we find on field trips which cannot be scratched by a file may be worth collecting. ren are Caetiene ery et ee 8. This mineral group includes the gems mor ganite, aquamarine and emerald. Topaz, number eight, occurs in Texas. That from the Mason country locations is finer in than much imported topaz. It is unlikely that the corundums, ruby and sapphire, will be be found anywhere in our area. Diamonds, however, have been found in Texas and all over the central United States at wide ly scattered spots. They are belived to have edge of the application of hardness tests will Pia le ttat tanta HPs identify mineral specimens. ARROWREAD HUNTERS and artifact col lectors should be vitally interested in a book written by the late Virgil Y. Russell of Cas per, Wyoming. The book is entitled ‘Indian Artifacts, and this third edition represents a study and col lection of this subject for over half a century. This book was written for the amateur col lectors and not for the advanced scholar of archeology. For the professional hunter, how ever, this is a good base reference work. For the beginner interested in artifact hunting, no better investment could be made. Simply and well written, this 170-page book contains many photographic and hand-drawn illustrations. “Indian Artifacts’ starts with how to start a collection, and ends with an index of artifacts. The index is enlightening, as it lists 115 artifacts the collector may hunt, and is quite a challenge to those interested in this outdoor pursuit. Contents include deciding on the type of collection, suggestions for hunting artifacts, hand and hafted tools, projectile points, heavy artifacts, miscellaneous artifacts, and artifacts of recent origin. In this book the author makes half a cn tary of experience available to the beginner. bl Shelving peachhke Paleong Bek maining copies are in possession of Mrs. Virgil egne FR: pies: Stress, SANOes, Wyom-
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Lubbock Morning Avalanche
Lubbock, Texas, US
Sun, Jan 11, 1959
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