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THE annual general meeting of the Institute of Metals was held on March 9 and 10, and the incoming president, Sir Henry Fowler, delivered his address on the first day. Referring to the literature of metallurgy forty years ago, Sir Henry remarked that it was very meagre in Great Britain, especially as regards non-ferrous metals; and that possibly this lack was in part responsible for the formation of the Institute of Metals, for among its original objects was the publication of a journal containing original papers and abstracts. Abstracts appeared for the first time in the second volume of the Journal of the Institute, occupying 41 pages. In the last issue of the Journal in which they were incorporated, they occupied (with index) 436 pages. Now that the Journal is being published monthly, it is hoped that abstracts will be available within six weeks of the original publication of important papers. Sir Henry stated that more than a thousand periodicals, in about twenty languages, are searched systematically by a band of more than thirty qualified abstractors, who provided in the past twelve months more than four thousand abstracts. The magnitude of this undertaking is probably unique as the work of a single institution.
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Metallurgical Literature. Nature 129, 429 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129429d0
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