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THE ninth annual meeting of the members of the Iron and Steel Institute was commenced on Thursday in the rooms of the Institution of Civil Engineers in Westminster. The chair was occupied by Dr. C. W. Siemens, F.R.S., the President of the Institute, and the proceedings were commenced by the reading of the Annual Report of the Council, which stated that the total number of members now exceeds 900, while a steady accession of new members continues, there being 47 proposed for election at the present meeting. The Council referred to the increase of foreign members, which shows the interest taken in the institute by Continental and American metallurgists. An invitation received from M. Tresca on behalf of the Société des Ingénieurs Civils, to visit Paris in the ensuing summer and the concurrent holding of the International Exhibition in that city, have induced the Council to recommend that the next autumn meeting should be held in Paris. A sum of 2,318l. has been raised by the Institute for the widow and family of Mr. Jones, the late general secretary,
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The Iron and Steel Institute . Nature 17, 458–459 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/017458a0
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