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THE Annual London Meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute will be held on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, May 7, 8, and 9, at the Institution of Civil Engineers, 25, Great George Street, Westminster. The following programme of proceedings has been arranged:—On Wednesday the retiring President (Dr. C. W. Siemens, F.R.S.), will take the chair at 10.30 A.M., and the President-Elect (Mr. Edward Williams) will deliver his inaugural address. The Bessemer Medal for 1879 will be presented to Mr. Peter Cooper, of New York, “the father of the American iron trade.” The adjourned discussion on the paper read at Paris by Mr. Daniel Adamson, C.E., of Manchester, on “The Mechanical Properties of Iron and Mild Steel,” will be resumed, and Mr. Adamson will present a supplementary paper. On the following days the following papers will be read and discussed:—“On the Use of Steel in Naval Construction,” by Mr. Nathaniel Barnaby, C.B., H.M.'s Chief Constructor. “On the Use of Steel in the Construction of Bridges,” by Mr. H. N. Maynard. “On the Elimination of Phosphorus in the Bessemer Converter,” by Mr. Sydney G. Thomas, F.C.S., and Mr. Percy C. Gilchrist, A.R.S.M., F.C.S. “On the Removal of Phosphorus and Sulphur during the Bessemer and Siemens-Martin Processes of Steel Manufacture,” by Mr. G. J. Snelus, F.C.S., &c. “On a New Volumetric Method of Determining Manganese in Manganiferous Iron Ores, Spiegeleisen, Steel, &c.,” by Mr. John Pattinson, F.I.C., Newcastle-on-Tyne. “On a Ready Means of Moulding Lime, and making Lime or Basic Bricks and Linings for Furnace Converters, &c.,” by Mr. Edward Riley, F.C.S., F.I.C., &c. “On a Practical Combination of the Bessemer and Puddling Processes,” by Mr. Edwin Pettitt, Cheltenham. “On the Results of Working the Godfrey-Howson Furnaces at the Works of Tamaris, Gard, France,” by M. Escalle. “On the Chemistry of Puddling,” by Mr. H. Louis, A.R.S.M., Londonderry, Nova Scotia. “On a New Process for Protecting Iron and Steel against Rust,” by Prof. Barff.