Steel Dome for the Yerkes Observatory, Lake Geneva, Wis., U.S. The Ports and the Maritime Canal of Bruges. G. LEUGNY. The Removal of House-Refuse on the Kinsbruner System. W. HÄNTZSCHEL Increasing the Quantity of Ammonia in a Gasworks. BRUNET. Street-Lighting with Incandescent Gas-Burners in Munich. Dr. E. The Methods of Estimating the Volume of Carbonic-Acid Gas. Acetylene Gas from the Hygienic Point of View. J. VÉRTESS. The Value of Various Descriptions of Wood for Pit Timber. C. DÜTTING The Electric Driving of Accessory Machinery in Rolling Mills. M. MEIER 423 The Influence of Arsenic on the Mechanical Properties of Steel. Construction of Ice-Breakers. R. RUNEBERG and ADMIRAL C. MAKAROV Danish Ice-Breakers and Railway-Train Ferries. N. AFANASSIEV . Petroleum Fuel for Vessels of the Russian Navy and Volunteer Fleet. Oil v. Soap-and-Water for Calming Broken Waves. GERHARDT The Sparking of Commutators. H. F. PARSHALL and H. M. HOBART The Multiple-Resonance of Electrical Oscillations. L. DECOMBE Electrodes for Electrolysis of Alkali Metal Chlorides. H. BECKER Diaphragms for the Electrolysis of the Alkali Metal Chlorides. Plant of the Ellicott-Square Building, Buffalo, N.Y. F. L. WILSON Celestial Phenomena and Kathode Rays. H. DESLANDRES Electrodynamic Slit Action. M. LATRILLE Relations between Luminous and Chemical Energy. BERTHELOT . Sayers' Automatic Third-Brush Regulation of Dynamos. Electric Traction on Railways. P. LANINO THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. SESSION 1898-99.-PART I. SECT. I.-MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS. 1 November, 1898. WILLIAM HENRY PREECE, C.B., F.R.S., President, THE PRESIDENT, on taking the Chair for the first time after his election, observed that he had been President of the Institution for 6 months, but the present was the first occasion on which he had had the opportunity of meeting the members in that capacity. There seemed to be something still wanting in the By-laws of the Institution, and it was his intention to take an early opportunity of bringing the matter before the Council, with a view to a re-arrangement, by which the induction of the President to the Chair should be coincident with the commencement of the Session and the date of his Address. During the past six months Death had been remorseless with his scythe. Several familiar faces were missing from the Council table, and many other members had disappeared for ever. The Institution had lost two Past-Presidents. Sir Robert Rawlinson had died at the ripe old age of 88; and Harrison Hayter's judicial head would be missed from the Council table; Sir James Douglass, a former Vice-President, had succumbed; and last, but not least, one had been taken away by the most tragic accident that had ever happened in the Alps-one who had scarcely completed his fiftieth year, and whom the Institution could ill afford to lose. John Hopkinson was a valued neighbour of his, and the intimate friend of many of the members; he was a devoted engineer, an accomplished scientist, an athlete in mathematics, and was regarded by every one as an authority in at least two branches of the profession. He need hardly say that the Council had taken the first and most rapid means of expressing the feelings of the members of the Institution at such a dreadful loss, and their sympathy with those nearest and dearest to him. Only [THE INST. C.E. VOL. CXXXV.] B |