Correspondence. Portland Cement Specifications

The PRESIDENT (Major A. H. S. Waters, V.C., D.S.O., M.C., M.Inst.C.E., etc.), introducing Major Moncrieff, said that he was already well known to some of the members personally, but he was known to the Institution as a whole, not only by reason of the services he had rendered as its representative in India, but also because he was the bearer of a name which in the Institution would ever be honoured and remembered with gratitude.

Dr. OSCAR FABER, O.B.E., D.Sc., M.1nst.C.E.(Member), who emphasised the great honour that Dr. Von Emperger had done the Institution by contributing his important paper, said there might have been question in some minds as to the value of international conferences; but when they took place within the Institution of Structural Engineers there could be no two opinions as to their desirability. The Institution was also greatly indebted to Mr. Kauf for having presented the paper, and he had paid the members the compliment of presuming that they could understand a very difficult subject with very great rapidity.

Mr. W. MUIRHEAD, M.1nst.C.E. (Member), proposed a hearty vote of thanks to Mr. Andrews, whose knowledge of the subject under discussion, he said, was second to none.