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THE seventy-fifth annual meeting of the Institution of Gas Engineers was held in London on May 31-June 3 when Sir David Milne Watson received the Birmingham Medal in recognition of his encouragement of research bearing on the manufacture and utilization of gas*. In his presidential address, Mr. H. C. Smith, of Tottenham, stated that the gas industry is under statutory obligation, subject to penalties, to supply gas of declared calorific value, prescribed purity and minimum pressure, whereas those who sell its raw material-coal-are encouraged by statute to raise the price of coal without any obligation as to its quality. He said that more than one million tons of useless material, which might have been removed from the coal at the collieries, had in 1937 been delivered to the gas works, to the detriment of both the carbonizer and the user of coke. He suggested that legislation concerning the coal industry should not stop at machinery for raising prices, but should impose obligations to supply coal of prescribed and regular quality.
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H., H. Institution of Gas Engineers. Nature 142, 545 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142545a0
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