XXIV. ABSTRACT OP PROCEEDINGS 



ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS, SEPTEMBER 6, 1905. 



The General Monthly Meeting of the Society was held 

 at the Society's House, No. 5 Elizabeth-street North, on 

 Wednesday evening, September 6th, 1905. 



H. A. Lenehan, p.r.a.s., President, in the Ohair. 



Twenty-seven members were present. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and 

 confirmed. 



Messrs. R. P. Sellors and J. Brooks were appointed 

 Scrutineers, and Mr. W. M. Hamlet deputed to preside at 

 the Ballot Box. 



The certificate of one candidate was read for the third 

 time, of one for the second time, and of three for the first 

 time. 



The following gentleman was duly elected an ordinary 

 member of the Society, viz.: — 



Taylor, John M., m.a., ll.b. (Syd.), North Sydney. 



The Chairman announced that bound copies of the 

 Society's Journal, Vol. xxxviii., for 1904 could be had on 

 application to the Assistant Secretary. 



Thirty-two volumes, 243 parts, 20 reports, and 2 

 pamphlets, total 297, received as donations since the last 

 meeting, were laid upon the table and acknowledged. 



THE FOLLOWING PAPERS WERE READ : 



1. " Reinforced Concrete," Paper III., by Professor W. H. 

 Warren, wl. sc, m. lust, c e., m. Am soc. c.e., Challis Pro- 

 fessor of Engineering, University of Sydney. 



The following matters were dealt with : — . 



a. The adhesion of cement mortar and ^concrete to steel. 



b. The experimental determination of the neutral axis 

 in a plain concrete, and also in a reinforced concrete beam, 

 and the curves of strain for loads increasing from zero to 



