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THE annual report of the council of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers for the year 1915 shows that the fund raised in conjunction with other institutions to establish a memorial to the late Sir W. H. White, K.C.B., amounted to more than 3000l. After providing for a medallion portrait, to be placed in the Institution of Civil Engineers, and a donation to the Westminster Hospital, the bulk of the fund, together with any further contributions, is being devoted to the establishment of a research scholarship in naval architecture, to be administered by the Institution of Naval Architects. The report also states that the Thomas Hawksley medal for 1916 has been awarded to Prof. H. L. Callendar, for his paper “On the Steady Flow of Steam through a Nozzle or Throttle,” and premiums of 5l. each have been awarded to Prof. A. H. Gibson and Mr. W. J. Walker, for their paper on “The Distribution of Heat in the Cylinder of a Gas Engine.” A grant of 15l. has been made from the Bryan Donkin Fund, for original research in mechanical engineering, to Mr. A. H. Barker, in aid of his research at University College, London, “to investigate a new method of determining the radiant temperature and air temperature in a room.” The balance of the third triennial award has been devoted to aiding the steam-nozzles and hardness tests researches of the institution.
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Institution of Mechanical Engineers . Nature 97, 69 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097069a0
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