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THE forty-sixth annual general meeting of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers will be held on Thursday evening and Friday evening, February 2 and 3, at 25, Great George Street, Westminster. The chair will be taken by the president, Dr. William Anderson, F.R.S., at half-past seven on each evening. The annual report of the council will be presented to the meeting on Thursday, and the annual election of the president, vice-presidents, and members of council, and the ordinary election of new members will take place on the same evening. The following papers will be read and discussed, as far as time permits:—Description of the Experimental Apparatus and Shaping Machine for Ship Models at the Admiralty Experiment Works, Haslar, by Mr. R. Edmund Froude, of Haslar (Thursday); description of the Pumping Engines and Water-Softening Machinery at the Southampton Water Works, by Mr. William Matthews, Waterworks Engineer (Friday).

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Notes. Nature 47, 300–303 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/047300a0

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