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THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS

THE Annual General Meeting of this Institntion was held on January 25 and 26, at the Institution of Civil Engineers, Great George Street; and the papers read were of unusual interest, from a scientific point of view, for a society whose aims are so distinctly practical. As it was pointed out by the president, Mr. Westmacott, three out of the five papers on the list were contributed by professors of science, and dealt with aspects more or less theoretical of the subjects treated upon. This forms, in fact, an additional instance of the way in which the old barriers between theory and practice are breaking down, and it is everywhere becoming recognised that neither can flourish withont the aid of the other.

Institution of Mechanical Engineers

THE Annual General Meeting of this Institution was held at the Institution of Civil Engineers, Great George Street, on January 26 and 27.

THE ALTAR IN THE PYX CHAMBER, WESTMINSTER ABBEY

The altar in the Pyx Chamber, Westminster Abbey Get access J. T. M. J. T. M. 16, Delahay Street, Great George Street, S.W. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s6-I, Issue 20, 15 May 1880, Pages 400–401, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s6-I.20.400 Published: 15 May 1880

The altar in the pyx chamber, westminster abbey

The altar in the pyx chamber, westminster abbey Get access J. T. M. J. T. M. 1Delahay Street, Great George Street, S.W. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s6-I, Issue 17, 24 April 1880, Page 334, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s6-I.17.334a Published: 24 April 1880

4. On two unrecorded Eggs of the Great Auk (Alca impennis) discovered in an Edinburgh Collection; with remarks on the former existence of the bird in Newfoundland

The two eggs of the Great Auk which I now exhibit were bought in Dowell's Auction Rooms rather more than a month ago, and formed part of a collection of “birds' eggs, shells, and other natural history specimens” which was disposed of among a lot of miscellaneous property belonging to a legal gentleman of this city. This small collection of eggs had been in the possession of the owner for about thirty years, and the two eggs in question had been purchased by his father from another collector in Edinburgh— a Mr Little—in whose possession it is thought, from collected and trustworthy evidence, the specimens had been at least other thirty years. These eggs, therefore, have probably not changed hands more than once during a period of fifty or sixty years. The present owner of the specimens, Mr Small, animal preserver, George Street, purchased the lot at the sale for £1, 12s., and has since taken great pains to establish the few facts I have stated regarding their history.

The Iron and Steel Institute

THE annual spring muster of this young and vigorous society, now in the tenth year of its age, and numbering close upon a thousand members, was held, according to custom, in the house of the Institution of Civil Engineers in Great George Street, last week. This gathering has been awaited with considerable interest for sometime past, as communications of more than usual importance were expected upon the problem of dephosphorising ordinary brands of cast iron, such as are smelted from the stratified ores of Cleveland, Lincolnshire, and Northamptonshire, sufficiently to be able to produce from them steel of fair merchantable quality; and the attendance fully justified the expectations, the large meeting room being, as a rule, filled to overflowing each day within a very few minutes after the opening of the proceedings. With the exception of a morning devoted to complimentary and formal business, including the address of the new president, Mr. Edward Williams, who succeeds Dr. Siemens, and, in a few pages, presented a bold and rapid sketch of the progress of the malleable iron and steel industries since 1855, the year of Bessemer's great invention, and the presentation of the medal to Mr. Peter Cooper, of New York, the father of the American iron trade, and the founder of the Cooper Institute, probably the largest free technical school in the world, the three days of the meeting were given up to the reading and discussion of papers in the thorough and workmanlike manner that has distinguished the Institute from its earliest meeting to the present time. Of prominent interest among these communications was undoubtedly that by Messrs. Thomas and Gilchrist on the Elimination of Phosphorus in the Bessemer converter, describing a series of experiments in continuation of others previously brought before the Institute, made at Blaeravonand Dowlais in South Wales and at Messrs. Bolckow and Vaughan's steel-works in Cleveland. The essential novelty in these experiments is the use of lime and oxide of iron as a flux in the Bessemer converter, lime being also used as a refracting lining in place of the ordinary siliceous sand or ganister. By this comparatively simple change it is found that the highly phosphuretted iron of Cleveland, containing I per cent. and upwards of phosphorus, may be so completely purged from that objectionable metalloid as to yield a steel, or rather, to use the proposed international nomenclature, an “ingot metal,” which in this particular compares favourably with that blown from hematite pigiron, the amount of phosphorus ranging from.03 to 0.15 per cent. in various samples.

The Society of Telegraph Engineers

THE Annual General Meeting of this Society was held at The Institution of Civil Engineers, 25, Great George Street, Westminster, on the evening of Wednesday, the 13th instant.

Report of Annual Meeting

A Quarterly Meeting of the Medico-Psychological Association, for scientific discussion, will be held at the Rooms of the Medical Society, George Street, Hanover Square, on the 22nd January, 1873. Dr. S. W. Duckworth Williams will exhibit some interesting pathological specimens relating to the state of the bones in general paresis; and a paper will be read by Dr. Blandford on “The Connection between the Causes and the Symptoms of Insanity.” Notices of papers, communications, &c., to be sent to the Honorary Secretary, Dr. Christie, Royal India Asylum, Ealing, W.

Miserere carvings

Journal Article Miserere carvings Get access J. T. Micklethwaite J. T. Micklethwaite 13, Delahay Street, Great George Street, S.W. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s4-X, Issue 236, 6 July 1872, Page 15, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s4-X.236.15f Published: 06 July 1872

Obituary Notice of James David Forbes, D.C.I., LL.D., F.R.S., Principal of the United College of St. Salvator and St. Leonard, in the University of St. Andrews, and late Honorary Fellow of the Society

Since the last meeting of the Society we have lost one of the most distinguished of our Honorary Fellows. Principal Forbes died on the 31st of last month. The removal of such a man ought not to be allowed to pass without some tribute to his memory, or some outline, however imperfect, of what he accomplished. It is customary to reserve the notices of deceased Fellows until the beginning of the succeeding session. But on the present occasion we are justified, I believe, in departing from the usual rule. Before proceeding to the ordinary business of the evening, the Society will, I am sure, agree with me in thinking it at once a duty and a privilege to linger for a little over the life and work of our departed associate. James David Forbes, born at 86 George Street, Edinburgh, on the 20th of April 1809, was the son of Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo and Williamina, only child of Sir John Steuart of Fettercairn. His mother, who at the time of his birth was suffering from an advanced state of consumption, was removed, along with her son, in the autumn of the same year, to the south of England, where she died the year after. The nature of her illness gave Sir William much anxiety for the health of his infant son. The boy was brought back to Scotland, and, as he grew out of infancy, his delicate frame and the quick intelligence which he early began to show

John Robinson Maclean, Esq., 17 Great George Street

John Robinson Maclean, Esq., 17 Great George Street

James Samuel, Esq., 26 Great George Street, Westminster;

James Samuel, Esq., 26 Great George Street, Westminster;

James Samuel, Esq., 26 Great George Street, Westminster;

James Samuel, Esq., 26 Great George Street, Westminster;