Excerpt from Constitution, by-Laws and List of Members: May, 1889 Section 1, - The regular meetings Of the Society shall be held on the first Wednesday in each month. There shall be meetings Of the Society held on the third Wednesday in each month, for professional improvement and the encourage ment Of social intercourse among men of practical science, at which papers shall be read and subjects discussed relating to the theory and practice Of engineering, and no other business transacted. The Board of Direction may suspend meetings of the Society in the months of July and August. A Convention Of the Society for professional discussion and social intercourse shall be held annually at such place as the Society may determine, and be pre sided over by a Chairman selected from among Members not officers of the Society. During the Convention, a regular meeting of the Society, to be presided over by the Officers of the Society, may be held for the transaction of business. On the evening of the first day of the Convention, there Shall be held a meeting to which the public may be invited, and at which the President Of the Society shall deliver an address giving a summary of engineering progress during the preceding year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.