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A GENERAL meeting of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers was held on Wednesday and Thursday evenings of last week, the 28th and 29th ultimo. The meeting took place at the Institution of Civil Engineers, Great George Street, the theatre having been lent by the Council of the latter Society for the purpose. The President, Mr. Joseph Tomlinson, occupied the chair, and there were two papers on the agenda. The first of these, taken at the Wednesday's sitting, was “On some Details in the Construction of Modern Lancashire Boilers,” by Mr. Samuel Boswell, of Manchester. The evening of Thursday was occupied with the reading of “The Report to the Alloys Research Committee,” made by Prof. W. C. Roberts-Austen, C.B., F.R.S.
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See also Comptes rendus, vol. cx., 1890, p. 346.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. clxxix., 1888, p. 339.
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The Institution of Mechanical Engineers . Nature 45, 22–23 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/045022a0
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