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NOTWITHSTANDING the pre-eminent scale on which the mineral and metallic industries of Great Britain are conducted in practice, it must nevertheless be admitted that, as a rule, we have hitherto been long and far behind our continental neighbours in respect to possessing institutions calculated to aid in developing or advancing the scientific or practical bearings of such subjects, or to afford the means of intercommunication between those occupied or interested in such pursuits. To this rule, however, we now have, at least, one honourable exception in the case of the Iron and Steel Institute, now holding its second annual meeting in London, and the establishment of which, in 1869, must be looked upon by all interested in the application of science to the arts, not only as a decided step forward in the right direction, but may even be regarded as inaugurating a new era in the history of the so important iron and steel manufactures of Great Britain.
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FORBES, D. The Iron and Steel Institute . Nature 3, 422 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003422a0
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