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THE autumn meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute was held on September 3 and 4, in conjunction with the International Engineering Congress, at the University of Glasgow, and was very largely attended. After speeches of welcome, the president, Mr. W. Whitwell, delivered a short introductory address, in which he dwelt upon the advantages to be expected from the fact that the Iron and Steel Institute met for the first time in its history in conjunction with eight other societies, forming one great International Engineering Congress. In the overwhelming mass of matter published by these societies there was, he considered, a certain amount of overlapping that the Congress might tend to obviate in the future. Some of the papers, too, at first sight might appear to be of little practical importance. This criticism had frequently been applied to many of the papers read before the Iron and Steel Institute. It must be remembered, howeyer, that this had been from time immemorial the favourite objection to the work of pioneers of thought.
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Iron and Steel Institute . Nature 64, 491–493 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064491b0
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