The Late M. Augustin Mesnager

As announced in our last issue, the awards in connection with the Portland House Scholarship for 1932 have been made as follows :- Winner of the Scholurship and Gold Medal: Mr. Walter M. Goodesmith, Graduate. Winner of the Silver Medal: Mr. D. Bethune-Williams, Graduate. Winner of the Bronze Medal: Mr. C. Wright, Associate-Member.

Mr. A. R. WARNES (Associate) said:-"That the subject of stone decay is of importance to the structural engineer is obvious, and Mr. Power is to be congratulated in bringing this subject before the members.

In his paper The Handling and Storing of Grain with special reference to Canadian Methods, read at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, on January 27th last, Mr. H. H. Broughton, M.I.Mech.E., emphasised he importance of grain silos by reminding us that the wheat of which the bread is made comes from the ends of the earth into this country at the rate of about 120,000 tons per week, and that, if the machinery responsible for such movement had to fail for any cause for a time reckoned in weeks, famine would inevitably result in this country because Britain has safe storage accommodation for only a small fraction of the wheat she consumes. T.J. Gueritte