The Newcomen Society

Abstract

THE annual meeting of the Newcomen Society was held on November 8, when Col. C. E. Davies, secretary of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, was elected president for the ensuing year. Col. Davies for many years acted as corresponding honorary secretary in the United States for the Society. The annual report referred to a further large increase in membership, the total number of members on October 1, 1939, being 1,252. Twenty-five papers were contributed during the year, while in England a summer meeting was held in Suffolk and in the United States a pilgrimage was held in Alabama. For the information of members a Newcomen Quarterly Bulletin is now published. The finances of the Society continue to remain in a satisfactory state and the issue of a fifth Extra Publication is under consideration. Though for the time the monthly meetings have been suspended, papers are being sent in for the Transactions. At the close of the business, the retiring president, Mr. W. A. Young, read his presidential address on “Thomas Newcomen—Ironmonger: the Contemporary Background”, and Dr. T. E. Lones read “A Précis of Metallum Martis and an Analysis of Dud Dudley's Alleged Invention”.