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Civil Engineers, and he should hardly hope to succeed in erecting 

 such a building as he, and many of them would like to see, without 

 the active co-operation of that Institution. They would all gladly 

 play second r6le to the parent institution of engineering, which 

 liad been long established under a charter, and represented the 

 science of engineering of the country. The President having put 

 the resolution, said he was glad to say it was carried unanimously, 

 and he hoped that would be the first step towards the realization 

 of a very important object. They would have to adjourn the 

 discussion until the following day, 



PUDDLING IRON IN GAS FURNACES. 



To THE EDITOR OP " THE ENGINEER." 



SIR, The merits of the regenerative gas furnace are now so 

 generally admitted, that it took me somewhat by surprise to see in 

 your journal of the 12th inst. a letter signed " Arthur Coyte," in 

 which it is asserted that the application of these furnaces at the 

 works of Messrs. Nettlefold and Chamberlain meaning, no doubt, 

 Messrs. Nettlef olds' Castle Iron Works near Wellington, had been 

 attended with disastrous loss. 



Messrs. Nettlefolds erected their first gas furnace forge, con- 

 sisting of ten puddling and two heating furnaces, in 1870, in 

 accordance with my designs, and as they have not only expressed 

 themselves highly satisfied with the performance of these furnaces, 

 but have given proof of their confidence in them by erecting a 

 second forge of the same capacity in 1873, and a third forge in 

 1876, I immediately wrote to those gentlemen, asking them to 

 account, if possible, for the extraordinary statement volunteered by 

 your correspondent. I enclose the reply I received to my inquiry, 

 from which it is evident that Mr. Arthur Coyte has drawn for his 

 statements upon his own imagination, being influenced perhaps by 

 a desire to supersede existing regenerative gas furnaces by some 

 inspiration of his own. 



