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M. Jullien, the managing director of the Terrenoire Works, 

 those members of our Institute who wish to avail themselves of 

 it will have an opportunity of visiting these and other remarkable 

 works of the same industrial centre. 



Another section of our body will be able to take advantage of 

 the invitation of M. de Wcndel to visit a group of works in the 

 Meurthe and Moselle district, where an oolitic ore is worked not 

 dissimilar in character to Cleveland ore, and it will be a matter of 

 considerable interest to those more intimately connected with the 

 Cleveland district to observe the points of difference in the practice 

 of the two countries. 



The papers presented to us for discussion are of a highly 

 interesting character. Foremost amongst them stands that of 

 M. Jordan, " On the Iron Ore Resources of France," from which 

 we shall gather a great deal of valuable information regarding the 

 distribution of the mineral wealth of this country, and the system 

 and methods generally adopted for the production of those highly- 

 finished materials and appliances that meet our view in passing 

 through the French portion of the Exhibition. We shall have a 

 paper from M. Marche dealing with general questions of interest 

 regarding the application of steel, and another from our own 

 member of Council, Mr. Adamson, giving an elaborate series of 

 tests of that material, showing to what extent it may be relied 

 upon in its application to the construction of boilers and for other 

 engineering purposes. Professor Akermann will enlighten us on 

 the present state of iron and steel manufacture as judged from 

 the Paris Exhibition, and there are other papers on special subjects 

 by M. Perisse, Mr. Rothwell, and Messrs. Thomas and Gilchrist. 



Bearing in mind the important communications just alluded 

 to, I shall not venture to take up your time with any elaborate 

 observations regarding the iron and steel industries of the country 

 you have come to visit, and it remains for me in conclusion of 

 these introductory remarks only to express our high sense of 

 appreciation of the kind and hospitable manner in which we have 

 been received, and to assure our hosts beforehand that although 

 we occupy in a certain degree the position of rivals towards them, 

 as we stand also as rivals of one another, we come among them 

 animated with that kindliness of feeling and that desire to 

 exchange knowledge and experience which does not preclude 



