An interesting communication was made by M. Freyssinet before the Members of the Societe des Ingenieurs Civils de France in Paris, July llth, 1930, on some aspects of the design and construction of the important reinforced concrete bridge built over the river Elorn, near Plougastel, in French Brittany. T.J. Gueritte
To the Secretary of The Structural Engineer. SIR,-The article, in the March, 1931, issue of the Journal, on the strength of compression members, by Mr. Ewart S. Andrews, is of such importance to the structural engineer, that I feel sure you will allow me a little space for a few comments on the several formulae put forward in the article.
HAVING returned from a tour in five of the countries of central Europe, I look back and review the whole of my studies with a great amount of pleasure. I visited more than twenty cities and towns during the forty-two days I was abroad, and I have returned with rather fleeting impressions of much of the work worthy of closer attention than my time at each centre would allow. But I have formed some broad ideas of the comparative architectural merits of reinforced concrete design, and I have also been able to study in some measure the activities and development of this work, and its influence on the general trend of contemporary architectural styles of each district. Harold B. Rowe