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ON Thursday and Friday of last week, the spring meeting of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers was held in the theatre of the Institution of Civil Engineers, by permission of the Council of the latter Society, the President, Mr. Joseph Tomlinson, being in the chair. There were but two items in the programme—namely, the fourth Report of the Research Committee on Friction, and a paper on rock drills, contributed by Messrs. Carbutt and Davey. The meeting suffered a good deal, especially on the second evening, from the fact that the Institution of Naval Architects was in session at the same time. On both evenings very interesting papers on engineering subjects were being read before the latter Society, where the attraction appeared to be greater, for, whilst the Mechanical Engineers meeting was very thinly attended, the Naval Architects had, we hear, an overflowing house on both evenings. It is a pity the secretaries of two Societies having objects so nearly akin, cannot arrange for their meetings not to clash. There is this to be said in favour of the Naval Architects, however, that they were adhering to a time-honoured fixture.
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The Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Nature 43, 499–500 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/043499a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/043499a0