164 REPORTS OF MEETINGS. 



ENGINEERING SECTION. 



ON the 30tli of June, 1888, an excursion of members 

 and friends, to the number of thirty-five, was made, 

 tinder the guidance of Mr. Charles Hichardson, President, 

 to the Severn Tunnel Pumping Stations. After visiting 

 the Stations, the party dined together at the Black Rock 

 Hotel, Portskewet. 



On the 20th December, 1888, about twenty-five members 

 dined together at the Queen's Hotel, Clifton. 



A farewell dinner was given on the 22nd March, 1889, 

 at the Queen's Hotel, to Mr. Sutcliffe, member of Committee, 

 on the occasion of his leaving Bristol for an appointment 

 at Goole under the Aire and Calder Navigation. 



During the Session eight Meetings were held. The fol- 

 lowing Papers w^ere read : — 



" The Severn Tunnel : its Origin and Construction," Mr. 

 Charles Richardson, C.E. (President) ; " Sewerage Systems," 

 Mr. A. P. I. Cotterell ; "Mechanical Testing Machines, and 

 the Behaviour of Metals under Stress," Mr. D. C. Selman ; 

 " Bells and Bell-Eounding," Mr. J. D. Noble ; " The Ware- 

 housing of Grain," Mr. J. M. McCurrich ; "The Eiffel 

 Tower : its Conditions of Stability," Mr. D. C. Selman. 



In connection with Mr. McCurrich's Paj^er about thirty 

 members visited on the 5th April, 1889, the New Granary, 

 Princess Wharf, Bristol, and by the kind permission of 

 Mr. Girdlestone, Docks Engineer, inspected the building 

 and machinery. 



NICHOLAS WATTS, lion. Sec. 



Note. — All the papers w^ere read prior to April IGth, 

 except Mr. Selman's on the Eiffel Tower. — N. W 



