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as there arc few important works where intense heat is employed 

 (including glass works) in this and other countries in which that 

 furnace is not largely, or even exclusively, used ; and this result 

 justifies me in the belief that smaller works will (notwithstanding 

 interested disparagements) follow sooner or later in the same 

 direction. 



As regards a secoud letter signed " Arthur Coyte," in which a 

 fresh batch of vague misrepresentations is put forward, I must 

 decline to give any reply, the more so as his assertion with regard 

 to yields is dealt with in your notice of the " Proceedings of the 

 Institution of Mechanical Engineers," at page 379 of the same 

 number in which his letter appears. 



0. WILLIAM SIEMENS. 



12, QUEKN ANNE'S GATE, LONDON, June 6th, 1877. 



REMAKES 

 Of DR. C. W. SIEMENS, D.C.L., F.E.S., 



At the Newcastle Meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute. 



THE PRESIDENT (DR. C. W. SIEMENS),* in responding to the 

 Mayor, said he had great pleasure, on behalf of the Institute, in 

 accepting the invitation given them to visit that great centre of 

 industry. Their Institution, as Mr. Cowen had so eloquently 

 remarked, cultivated one branch of science that of the smelting 

 of iron and steel. Formerly, the Royal Society of London was 

 almost the only scientific body to cultivate and to advance science, 

 but as the country progressed in its applications of science to 

 marine architecture, to telegraphy, to mechanics, and to the 

 smelting of metals, it became necessary that separate institutions 

 should be called into existence to take up those branches, and to 

 cultivate the same for the material advancement of the industries 

 of the country. Now, there was no industry more important than 



* Excerpt Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, 1877, pp. 313-316. 



