Minutes of proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers Volume 158
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...on Trust Funds account amounted to £506 18s. 2d. The investments on Institution account represented £70,900 (nominal value), purchased for £71,535 17«. 8d., and on Trust Funds account £18,168 4». 9d. (nominal value). The present mean market value of the Institution investments is £68,121. Engineering Conference. The Third Engineering Conference was held on the 17th, 18th and 19th of June, and was inaugurated by an Address to the combined sections by Mr. Hawkshaw, President of the Institution at that time. As on previous occasions, the work was divided among seven sections, at which thirty-seven notes were read and discussed, while there were sixteen visits to works, in which about 600 members took part. The notes were printed separately, and were issued to the members as a supplement to vol. cliv. of the Minutes of Proceedings. Owing to the very large number of speeches, and following the precedent of previous Conferences, the discussions were not published by the Institution; but arrangements were made by which accounts appeared in the principal technical journals, and the official verbatim report, occupying 3,300 folios, has been bound and placed in the Library for reference. Meetings. Twenty-one ordinary meetings were held, the gathering of the 1st December having been immediately adjourned after the transaction of the formal business, out of respect to the memory of the late Sir Frederick Bramwell, Past-President. Besides the President"s Address, which as usual occupied the first meeting of the session, nineteen papers were read, namely " Tensile Tests of Mild Steel; and the Relation of Elongation to the size of the Test-bar," by Professor W. C. Unwin; "The Distribution of Mean and Extreme Annual Rainfal...