March 27th, ipo6.] Proceedings. xvii 



General Meeting, March 27th, 1906. 



The President, Sir William H. Bailey, in the Chair. 



The following resolution, proposed by Mr. C. E. Stromeyer, 

 M.Inst.C.E., and seconded by Mr. E. F. Lange, was carried : — 



" That before every Annual Meeting the out-going Council 

 " shall prepare ballot papers containing the names of 

 " Members whom they have nominated for election into 

 " the Council and for the various Offices. These ballot 



"nanprc: fn rnntain fhp nnmes of two new Mpnihers. 



Special Meeting, March 2oih, igo6. 

 The President, Sir William H. Bailey, in the Chair. 



The Wilde Lecture, on "Total Solar Eclipses," was 

 deHvered by H. H. Turner, Esq., D.Sc, F.R.S., Professor of 

 Astronomy in the University of Oxford. 



Ordinary Meeting, March 27th, 1906. 

 The President, Sir William H. Bailey, in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of the 

 books upon the table. 



Mr. C. E. Stromeyer, M.Inst.C.E., read a paper entitled, 

 "On Recent Mysterious Fractures of Steel Plates." 



The author briefly referred to the well-known failures of 

 steel plates of the boilers of the Imperial Russian Yacht "Livadia," 

 and to Mr. Maginnis's experiences with two brittle marine boilers, 



