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Abstract

A MOVEMENT set on foot in the early part of last year for the founding of an institution or society the membership of which should be open to those particularly interested in problems connected with the fields of administration and organisation in relation to industrial enterprises was brought to a head at public meeting held on April 26 last at the Central Hall, Westminste, by the appointment of a pro- visional organising committee which was instructed to prepare a draft constitution for such an institution, to be named the Institute of Industrial Administration. This committee presented its report, accompanied by a draft constitution embodying (1) a schedule of objects, (2) the conditions of membership, and (3) the form of government, at a public meeting held at the above-named hall on July 15. This draft constitution was, with slight amendments, adopted on the date last mentioned, and the first board of management, consisting of eighteen members representing a variety of industries, was elected on the same occasion. The objects of the institute as set out in the draft constitution are briefly as follows:—To promote the general advancement of knowledge relative to the principles of industrial administration and their applications; to facilitate the exchange of information and ideas regarding the principles and practice of industrial administration; t collect and publish information and proposals bearing on any aspect of industrial administration; and to co-operate with professional, industrial, or educational societies, organisations, or authorities in pursuance of these objects. The government of the institute is to be vested in an advisory council composed of honorary members and a board of management representing the various classes of membership of the institute. Mr. E. T. Elbourne was elected hon. secretary of the institute, the offices of which are temporarily located at 110 Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W.I.