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been working under very high pressure to get this paper before us at all; he had 

 to work at night and on Sundays on it, and he did not have time to go into the 

 details and explain all these matters. The conclusions Mr. Peabody gives in this 

 paper are not to be taken as a mere ipse-dixit but they are the result of an un- 

 usually wide experience, and of investigating mistakes which have been made in 

 previous practice. The statements given in the paper are based on conclusions 

 gained in this manner, and it is due to Mr. Peabody to have that understood. I 

 am sure you will agree that the paper is exceedingly valuable, and supplies in con- 

 venient form a lot of information we have all wanted to get for a long time. 



The Chairman : — I am sure that Mr. Peabody understands, and I hope other 

 gentlemen who are to present papers will understand, that any suggestion of 

 brevity from the Chair, as to brevity of presentation, is for the purpose of providing 

 sufficient time in which to have the following papers presented. No one appre- 

 ciates, I think, more keenly than the Chair that the preparation of a paper of this 

 kind involves a great deal of work, and it is just such papers that add to the real 

 value of the Proceedings of this Society. While these papers may not be read in 

 full during the meetings of the Society^ they are invariably read afterwards, and 

 we are all intensely appreciative of the earnest work done by authors of papers 

 such as this. 



I am sure you will permit me, on behalf of the Society, to extend the thanks 

 of the Society to Mr. Peabody for his most admirable paper. 



The next paper to be presented will be that entitled " The Sperry Gyro- Compass 

 in Service," by Mr. R. E. Gillmor. 



Mr. GiUmor presented the paper. 



