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Abstract

IN accordance with previous announcements, arrangements have been made to hold the autumn meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute at Buxton, on Monday to Friday, September 26–30. The following are among the subjects of papers to be brought before the meeting:—Electric steel refining, D. F. Campbell; manganese in cast iron and the volume changes during cooling, H. I. Coe; sulphurous acid as a metallographic etching medium, E. Colver-Glauert and S. Hilpert; the theory of hardening carbon steels, C. A. Edwards; the influence of silicon on pure cast iron, A. Hague and T. Turner; the preparation of magnetic oxides of iron from aqueous solutions, S. Hilpert; the utilisation of electric power in the iron and steel industry, J. Elink Schuurman; some experiments on fatigue of metals, J. H. Smith.