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THE autumn meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute was held last week in Paris under the presidency of Sir James Kitson. The meeting was held in the rooms of the Société d'Encouragement, and was addressed, in the first instance, by M. Eiffel, President of the Société des Ingénieurs Civils, and by M.H. de la Goupilliére, President of the Société d'Encouragement. The President of the Institute, after thanking M. Eiffel and M. de la Goupilliére for their kind hospitality, announced that the Council had awarded the Bessemer Medal to M. Henri Schneider, of Creusot, for his services to the iron and steel trade of France, to whom it was presented on Friday by Sir Lowthian Bell. Sir James Kitson made a brief address, referring to their last visit to Paris in 1878, under the distinguished presidency of the late Sir William Siemens, to the increase in the roll register of the Institute which had taken place since that date. He drew attention to the improvements which had taken place during the last decade in the metallurgy of steel and iron; the commercial development of the Siemens-Martin and Thomis-Gilchrist steel processes; the increased development in the manufacture of steel owing to the extension which had taken place in its applications. The Eiffel Tower was an elegant example of the scientific power and imaginative genius of French engineering, whilst the French chemical study of the processes of metallurgy had rendered great service, not only to their own industry, but to that of the world at large. The names of many eminent French metallurgists were mentioned, and the work they had done was briefly referred to.
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The Iron and Steel Institute. Nature 40, 560–561 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040560a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/040560a0