The Fineness of Particles - Some Observations and Tentative Suggestions Prompted by Certain Phenomen

THE Editor of The Structural Engineer has suggested that my long career must have brought me in contact with many matters that might prove interesting to its readers and has asked for an account of my reminiscences. I have not had an eventful life, but it has been a long and busy one, and my memory being still good I have pleasure in recalling the days that have gone by. Professor Henry Adams

An explanation and an apology is offered by way of introduction to the present paper in that the circumstances under which it has been writtan differed somewhat from those usually obtaining. The author had not discovered some new facts and become seized with a desire to proclaim them, but merely consented to give effect to the suggestions of the Literature Committee of the Institution that a paper on timber construction should be included in the sessional programme. G.A. Gardner

It is gratifying to have the courtesy of the Institution extended, and a vote of thanks tendered for my paper, even though it received so little approval of the points raised. Edward Godfrey