ADDRESS 



BY 



Professor JOHN ORR, 

 B.Sc, M.I.C.E., M.I.Mech.E. 



PRESIDENT. 



It is customary, in a presidential address, for the speaker 

 to select a subject bearing more particularly upon his own pro- 

 fessional work, but the questions of technical education and the 

 progress of engineering have been dealt with by me on other 

 occasions, and, apart from this, the alTairs of the Association, 

 and the abnormal times through which we are passing, provide 

 subjects of such importance that it is impossible to ignore them. 



At this, the fifteenth annual meeting of the Association, it 

 may not be inappropriate to trace its progress and to give a 

 short account of the way in which the objects of the Association 

 have been fulfilled, recognising its shortcomings where such 

 exist; and to deal with its affairs from what may be regarded 

 as the material side. 



