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Mr. Clay, the Secretary, previously to reading the paper, 

 gave a brief history of the controversy which had engaged 

 the attention of the Society, and said, that at the quarterly 

 meeting held at Wakefield in July, a paper had been read by 

 Mr. Hartop on the different qualities of iron made by the hot 

 and cold blast systems. Mr. Hartop was in favour of the 

 cold blast, and it unfortunately happened that none of the 

 gentlemen who approved of the hot blast attended that meet- 

 ing to answer Mr. Hartop's arguments. He had now to 

 bring before the notice of the meeting a communication from 

 Mr. Graham, of the Milton iron works, and he much re- 

 gretted to add, that the Chairman had received a note from 

 Mr. Graham, stating that owing to ill health he was unable 

 to attend and take a part in the discussion. 



( Mr. Grahams Paper 92 et seq.) 



