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DURING nearly the whole of last week a most important congress was being held in London at the Institution of Civil Engineers. This was the International Maritime Congress, an institution founded in Paris in 1889, when no less than twenty-two papers on various maritime subjects were read and discussed, and visits were made to some of the most important seaports on the north and west coasts of France. The international commission, which constitutes the executive, determined that the second meeting of the congress should be held this year in London, and as a result the first sitting took place on July 18, when the opening proceedings were got through in the morning by the delivery of various complimentary addresses, whilst in the afternoon the more serious business of the congress commenced. The proceedings were divided into four sections, as follows:—
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The International Maritime Congress. Nature 48, 304–306 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048304a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/048304a0