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Mr. W. G. N. Geddes, BSc, CEng, FIStructE, FICE, FIWE, FIES, has the distinction of being the first Scot to serve as President of the Institution while actually domiciled in Scotland. Taking ofice on 7 October next, Mr. Geddes will deliver his Presidential Address at an Ordinary Meeting at 6 pm that evening at 11 Upper Belgrave Street, London.

The paper describes a simplified method of analysing cylindrical shells with a view to reducing numerical work to a minimum by using a set of design tables and solving only four boundary constants at a time.

The following Institution report was recently approved by the Council and has been forwarded to the Department of the Environment as a basis for further discussions.