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THE above volume contains the papers presented at the spring meeting of the Institute of Metals, of which an account has already appeared in the columns of NATURE. In addition, it contains the verbal discussion and written communications to which the papers gave rise. It is quite clear from these that the council, in organising a symposium of papers on metal melting, chose a subject which aroused very considerable interest among the members, and that some really valuable information was elicited and has now been placed on record in a form which should be of considerable utility. Equally clear is it that the subject will repay further investigation. The authorities of the Royal Mint are to be commended for having permitted Mr. Hocking to publish so much data based on many years' practice. Mr. Teisen's account of Hermansen's furnace was a very important contribution to the symposium. This producer-gas-fired crucible furnace is the outcome of the fact that owing to the scarcity of fuel and metal in Scandinavia, prices of these commodities are high in those countries as compared with Great Britain. Consequently it was necessary to build a more economical furnace than the type ordinarily used. The latter part of the volume contains the usual abstracts of current papers dealing with non-ferrous metals and alloys, and the present volume of the Journal, taken as a whole, should prove to be one of the most useful published by the Institute.
The Journal of the Institute of Metals.
Vol. xvii. Edited by G. Shaw Scott. Pp. x + 384. (London: The Institute of Metals, 1917.) Price 21s.
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The Journal of the Institute of Metals . Nature 100, 84 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100084a0
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