Abstract
THE annual general meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute was held on May 8 and 9. Sir William RobertsAusten, K C.B., the retiring president, announced that Andrew Carnegie Research Scholarships, each of the value of 100l., had been awarded to Dr. A. Stansfield (London), to Dr. J. A. Mathews (New York) and to Mr. J. Goldberg (Leoben, Austria). Mr. Carnegie announced his intention of doubling his original donation for the purpose of founding these scholarships. Mr. William Whitwell was then inducted into the presidential chair. Having presented the Bessemer Gold Medal for 1901 to Mr. John Edward Stead, in recognition of the value of his investigations of the physical and chemical properties of iron and steel, the president delivered his inaugural address, in which he reviewed the scientific and industrial achievements of the past reign, and enumerated some of the most important problems in metallurgy that still await solution. A vote of thanks to the president for his admirable address was proposed by Mr. Carnegie and seconded by Sir Lowthian Bell.
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