Issue 1

AT the request of the Council of the Concrete Institute the Institution of Municipal and County Engineers and the Institution of Municipal Engineers agreed to a joint conference with them upon "The Loads to be provided for upon Highway Bridges." The following delegates were appointed :-

GENTLEMEN,-In commencing my second presidential address to you, I desire in the first place to express my gratitude for the generous support I have received from the Council and Members during the past year. It has been a year of anxiety because we did not know from day to day how we might be affected by the progress of the war, but I am happy to say that so far our membership and funds have suffered no material loss. Many of our members are serving with the forces, but we have had a record number of meetings, and they have all been well attended. The masive volume of TRANSACTIONS, issued in May last,* is full of most valuable information, and even country and foreign members must admit that they get a good return for their subscriptions, although they are unable t0 join in our discussions.

IN the construction of works specially required for the purpose of the conveyance and storage of water reinforced concrete can be usefully employed for many purposes. Charles F. Marsh

The present Membership of the Concrete Institute and the alteration since the previous figures were given in the Report for the 1914-15 Session is shown in the following table:-

I. Resistance of concrete to diagonal tension. Consider a small square element in the web of a beam: subjected to shear (Fig. 14).

The following remarks are not intended as a complete treatment of this subject, but are simply a series of reminiscences descriptive of structures with which I have had either to deal or of which I have had information from those who have dealt with them. W. G. Perkins