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ON Wednesday and Thursday of last week, October 25 and 26, a general meeting of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers was held in the theatre of the Institution of Civil Engineers, in Great George-street, Westminster; the President, Dr. William Anderson, occupying the chair. Dr. Anderson retires in rotation this year, and Prof. Alexander B. W. Kennedy, F.R.S., is proposed as his successor. There were two papers down for reading, as follows:—“On the Artificial Lighting of Workshops,” by Mr. Benjamin A. Dobson, of Bolton; and “On the Working of Steam Pumps on the Russian South-Western Railways,” by Mr. Alexander Borodin,Engineer-Director.
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Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Nature 49, 18–19 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/049018c0
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