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SIR CLEMENT HINDLEY has been elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers for 1939-40 and will take up his duties on November 7. Sir Clement joined the Engineering Department of the East Indian Railway in 1897 and his career as a railway engineer in India culminated in his appointment in 1922 as the first Chief Commissioner of Railways for India. On retirement from India in 1928, Sir Clement was appointed as the first chairman of the Racecourse Betting Control Board, and he has recently been lent temporarily by the Board to the Home Office to act as chairman of the Professional Advisory Committee (Shelters) in connexion with air raid precautions. The organization of scientific research is a matter in which Sir Clement has taken a great interest and he was a member of the Advisory Council for Scientific and Industrial Research during 1932-37. He has been chairman, since its inauguration in 1935, of the Institution of Civil Engineers Research Committee, which has been responsible for carrying out many important engineering researches in connexion with soil corrosion of metals and cement products, pile-driving, velocity formulas, special cements for large dams, fish-passes, steel structures, repeated stresses in structural elements, earthing to metal water pipes and mains, breathing apparatus for use in sewers, etc. His election as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers is both a fitting acknowledgment of his eminence as an engineer and a mark of recognition of the importance of research in engineering.
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Sir Clement Hindley, K.C.I.E. Nature 143, 813 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143813c0
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