Presidential Address. The Evolution of Engineering Institutions Continued

“Docenal! What’s that?” you may exclaim, "there’s no such word! ”Well, perhaps not; at least you may not find it in an English Dictionary at present, but it has the makings of a good word all the same. “Duodecimal” would perhaps have been more generally understood, but, apart from the two unnecessary syllables, "duodecimal” seems to emphasize the fact that twelve is ten and two, whereas we would rather have you regard ten as two less than a dozen, the dozen-the “round dozen ”-being the natural and more convenient unit of numeration. Morgan E. Yeatman

The subject of this paper is the strength of rectangular slabs, but it is limited to such slabs as have an appreciable thickness coinpared with the span, and more particularly it is limited to slabs of reinforced concrete only. A. Ingerslev

In calculating the strength of plated rolled or built up sections it is usual first to calculate the moment of inertia about the neutral axis and then divide by the distance of the neutral axis from the extreme fibre. W.A. Green