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THE annual meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute will be held at the Institution of Civil Engineers, 25 Great Georg Street, London, on Thursday and Friday, May 26 and 27 commencing each day at 10.30 a.m. Sir Frederick Abel, F. R. S. the President, will deliver an address on Thursday, May 26 The following papers will be read and discussed on the same day, as far as time permits:—(1) On experiments with basic steel, by W. H. White, F.R.S., Director of Naval Construction and Assistant-Controller of the Navy; (2) on the production of pure iron in the basic furnace, by Colonel H. S. Dyer, Elswick Works, Newcastle-on-Tyne; (3) on experiments on the elimination of sulphur from iron, by E. J. Ball and A. Winghatn, London; (4) on platinum pyrometers by H. L. Callendar, London. On Friday, May 27, the following papers will be read and discussed:—(5) On the manufacture and application of chilled cast iron (Gruson's system), by E. Reimers, Technical Director of the Gruson Works, Madgeburg; (6) on valves for open hearth furnaces, by J. W. Wailes, Calderbank, near Glasgow; (7) on the calorific efficiency of the puddling furnace, by Major Cubillo, Trubia Arsenal, Spain; (8) on a practical slide-rule for use in the calculation of blast furnace charges, by A. Wingham, London; (9) notes on fuel, and its efficiency in metallurgic operations, by B. H. Thwaite, Liverpool.