The Eighth volume of Proceedings of the Shanghai Society of Engineers and Architects has just been issued to its members, and contains a large amonat of useful technical and general information.
The volume opens with a portrait of the retiring President, Mr. H. King Hiller, and a subject index to former volumes and an index of authors. The stops taken by the Society in connexion with the proposed registration Architects and Civil Engineers in Shanghai are set out in fall; and it is to be hoped that before another volume is published effect will have been givea to the necessary legislation, and registration has become an established fact.
The opening address of the President. as might be expected, deals with the manufacture and distribution of coal gas and this paper is followed by out on "Coal: its Classification and Valae" by Mr. W. A. Moller, bat it is to be regretted that this and the next paper on " Superheated Steam " by Mr. A. E. Charlton did not lead to apy discus sion. Another paper of a technical nature is one on " Steam Turbines " by Mr. R. Wesselhoeft, but here the discussion occupies almost as many pages as the paper itself,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.