S//? WILLIAM SIEMENS, F.R.S. 22? 



To THE EDITOR OF "THE TIMES." 



SIR, Since writing my letter to you under the above heading 

 yesterday I have been informed that Sir Joseph Whitworth and 

 Co. still continue the use of pots in melting steel for tools and 

 other particular purposes, and I shall feel obliged if you will give 

 a place for this correction of my previous statement in your next 

 impression. 



I am, sir, your obedient servant, 



C. WILLIAM SIEMENS. 



12, QnuES ANNE'S GATE, WESTMINSTER, S.W., March 20, 1879. 



REMARKS 

 Of C. W. SIEMENS, D.C.L., F.R.S., 



On quitting the Chair of the Iron and Steel Institute. 



THE PRESIDENT * (DR. SIEMENS), in acknowledging the vote of 

 thanks to the President and Council for their services during the 

 past year, said he wished to make a few parting remarks before 

 leaving the chair and handing into it his successor a gentleman 

 who was so well known to them that he need not say a word in 

 his commendation. What concerned him (Dr. Siemens) more 

 immediately was to give, in a few words, an account of his 

 stewardship during the last two years. Those two years had been 

 years of singular difficulty, not only to the iron trade generally, 

 but to the Institute as well. When he first took the chair they 

 had lost their Foreign Secretary, and immediately after he had 

 assumed office they also lost their General Secretary a gentleman 

 who had been at the foundation of the Society, and who seemed to 

 be an integral and inseparable part of it. This conjunction of 

 unfortunate circumstances rendered the management of the affairs 

 of the Institute a matter of greater difficulty to those who remained 



* Excerpt Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, 1879, pp. 5-7. 



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