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THE annual meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute will be held at the Institution of Civil Engineers, 25, Great George Street, London, on Wednesday and Thursday, May 24 and 25. On Wednesday business will be transacted; the Bessemer Gold Medal for 1893 wil1 be presented to Mr. John Fritz, of Bethlehem, Pa., U.S.A.; and the president-elect, Mr. E. Windsor Richards, will deliver his inaugural address. The following papers will afterwards be read and discussed: “On the elimination of sulphur from iron and steel” (second paper), by J. E. Stead; “On the Saniter process of desulphurisation,” by.E. H. Saniter. On Thursday the following papers will be read and discussed:—“On the basic process of Witkowitz,” by F. Kupelwieser; “Notes on puddling iron,” by John Head; “On a recording pyrometer,” by Prof. Roberts-Austen, F.R.S.