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THE first London summer meeting of the Institution of Naval Architects was held on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of last week. During the thirty-one years that the Institution has existed, it has only held five summer meetings. The first of these was in Glasgow, and was highly successful, but it was not followed by another summer meeting until the year 1886, when the attractions of the Liverpool Exhibition were sufficient to cause the Council to arrange a second meeting for that year in the second city of the kingdom. The Newcastle and Glasgow Exhibitions followed in the two succeeding years, and the members accordingly were summoned to the banks of the Tyne and Clyde. All these meetings were successful in every respect, not only in adding to the membership of the Institution, but in the valuable papers contributed to the Transactions, and the interest of the various excursions. In spite of this, no summer meeting was held either in 1889 or 1890, in which years there were but the single three days' meeting in the spring. That has been conclusively proved not to be sufficient time for the conduct of the business of the year; and at the last spring meeting it was announced that in future two meetings would be held every year—the first to be the usual spring meeting, which always takes place in London, and the second to be held in the summer, either in London or elsewhere. The success of the meeting just held strongly supports the wisdom of this decision.
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The Institution of Naval Architects. Nature 44, 305–307 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044305b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/044305b0