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Page 198 - On the motion of the President, a vote of thanks was accorded to the author for his paper.
Page 143 - Ingpen said he had much pleasure in proposing a vote of thanks to the President for his able and interesting address.
Page 31 - Company arc laid underground, and have been manufactured and laid by the Callender Company. The conductors are of stranded-copper wire, with a conductivity of 98 per cent. The largest feeding mains are composed of ninety-one No. 9 wires, and have a sectional area of 1'57 square inches. The conductor is covered with two layers of jute yarn and boiled in refined bitumen. It is next wrapped with parchment tape and covered with a lead casing. The lead is protected by an outside covering of rough jute...
Page 22 - I have cordially to thank you for the honour you have been pleased to confer upon me in electing me to the office of President of your Institution in the twenty-first year of its existence.
Page 262 - Gray proposed a hearty vote of thanks to the President for the able manner in which he had conducted the Johannesburg Session, which had proved most satisfactory.
Page 41 - Of Man's great Ignorance of the Uses of natural Things ; or that there is no one Thing in Nature whereof the Uses to human Life are yet thoroughly understood...
Page 57 - Tho secretary having read the notice convening the meeting, and the minutes of the last meeting...
Page 300 - He was very greatly obliged to the members for the manner in which they had received his paper, and for the criticisms that had been offered.
Page 47 - FRS (Past-President), proposed a vote of thanks to the President for his Address, which was seconded by Mr.
Page 212 - President, in the chair. There was a good attendance of members, and Professors Allen Thomson, Blackburn, and Veitch, were also present.