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FOR the first time the autumn meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute was this year held in Sheffield. An elaborate programme of visits to works and social functions was arranged, and no less than 1500 members and ladies were present, including members from all parts of the world. The opening meeting was held at the new university on September 26 under the presidency of Mr. R. A. Hadfield. Addresses of welcome were delivered by the Lord Mayor, the: Master Cutler, the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Colonel Hughes (chairman of the reception committee), and by the president of the Sheffield Trades and Labour Council on behalf of the working men. Mr. Hadfield, in reply, thanked the reception committee for the admirable work it had done, and gave an interesting historical review of the Sheffield steel trade. Incidentally, he mentioned that the membership of the Iron and Steel Institute had now risen to 2200. After the reading of the minutes of the last meeting by the secretary, Mr. Bennett H. Brough, and the transaction of other routine business, the papers submitted were read and discussed. In the first paper taken Prof. J. O. Arnold described the department of iron and steel metallurgy at the University of Sheffield. The main object borne in mind in designing the laboratory was the erection on a manufacturing scale of plant producing steel by the crucible, Bessemer, and Siemens processes.
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Iron and Steel Institute . Nature 72, 572–573 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072572a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/072572a0