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THE summer meeting of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers will be held in Portsmouth, and will begin on Tuesday, July 26. The following papers have been offered for reading and discussion, not necessarily in the order here given:—On shipbuilding in Portsmouth dockyard, by Mr. William H. White, F.R. S.; on the applications of electricity in the Royal dockyards and navy, by Mr. Henry E. Deadman; description of the lifting and hauling appliances in Portsmouth dockyard, by Mr. John T. Corner, R.N.; description of the new Royal pier at Southampton, by Mr. James Lemon; description of the Portsmouth sewage outfall works, by Sir Frederick Bramwell, F. R. S., Past-President; description of the new floating bridge between Portsmouth and Gosport, by Mr. H. Graham Harris; description of the Southampton sewage precipitation works and refuse destructor, by Mr. William B. G. Bennett; description of the experimental apparatus and shaping machine for ship models at the Admiralty experiment works, Haslar, by Mr. R. Edmund Froude; description of the pumping engines and water softening machinery at the Southampton water works, by Mr. William Matthews.