A MEETING of the British Rheologists' Club was held on June 16 at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Hants, in the Assembly Hall, through the courtesy of the director, Mr. W. S. Farren, the subject chosen being the "Strength of Materials". Dr. W. Douglas, head of the Materials Department of the Establishment, took the chair in the absence in the U.S.S.R. of the president, Prof. E. N. da C. Andrade. For those unfamiliar with the Establishment, it may be added that it is a directorate under the Controller of Research and Development of the Ministry of Aircraft Production. It is the chief research and experimental station under the Ministry, and it is concerned in all those fields of fundamental and applied science which influence the design, construction and performance of aircraft, military and civil, and in the equipment of aircraft.