the time and place of the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or of some one of the National Engineering Societies, or otherwise as the Council may determine.

8. PUBLICATIONS.-The Proceedings of the Society, and such papers or abstracts as may be approved by the Council, shall be published as soon as possible after each annual meeting.

9. AMENDMENTS.-This Constitution may be amended by a two-thirds vote at any regular meeting, the amendment having been approved by a two-thirds vote of the Council, taken by letter ballot.

RULES GOVERNING THE COUNCIL.

First. The officers of the Society shall constitute a committee to arrange the time and place of the annual meeting, and also to prepare a program for the same.

Second. The President, Secretary and Treasurer shall constitute an Executive Committee, which shall have charge of all matters relating to the business affairs of the Society not otherwise provided for.

Third. The reading of papers shall be limited to fifteen minutes each, and abstracts of the same of about three hundred words or less shall be printed when practicable and distributed in advance to the members.

Fourth. The time occupied by each person in the discussion of any paper shall not exceed five minutes.

PUBLICATIONS.

The publications of the Society can be obtained from the Secretary. The current issues are distributed gratuitously to members in good standing. The price of the bound volumes of the Proceedings is $2.50 to non-members, $2.00 to public libraries, and $1.50 to members for their libraries.

Reprints of papers may be ordered when the paper is in type form, and either with or without covers, at a price depending upon the number of pages and copies desired.

REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS.

MONDAY, JULY 1, 1907.

AFTERNOON SESSION, 1:30 o'CLOCK.

The fifteenth annual meeting of the SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION was held in the lecture room of the Physics Building of the Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio, July 1 to 3, 1907.

The meeting was called to order by the President, Dugald C. Jackson, who presided throughout the convention. President Chas. S. Howe of the Case School of Applied Science spoke words of welcome.

The report of the Secretary, William T. Magruder, was read and accepted.

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY, 1906-07.

TO THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY,

Gentlemen:-Your secretary wishes to congratulate the membership on the prosperous growth and healthy condition of our Society. Viewed from any position we have reason to be greatly encouraged.

At the Ithaca Meeting, the secretary reported 400 members. Nineteen were then added by election by the Society. The ten following persons were elected to membership by letterballot of the Council in February, 1907:-Messrs. Murray C. Beebe, Harry Y. Benedict, Frederick A. Goetze, Bernard R. Green, Edward V. Huntington, Franklin A. Ray, Leon H.

Rittenhouse, James G. Scrugham, Stephen E. Slocum, and Edgar J. Townsend. The gross increase in membership for 1906 was therefore 29. So far as known, death has twice entered our ranks during the year. Dr. George W. Atherton, President of the Pennsylvania State College, died on July 24, 1906. His obituary is published on page 292 of Volume XIV of our Proceedings. Major James R. Willett died May 9, 1907. The name of Dr. Lyman Hall, President of the Georgia School of Technology, has also been removed from our roll by his death in 1905. The name of Chas. H. Wheeler of the Drexel Institute has been dropped. His present address is unknown to his friends, his alma mater and his ex-colleagues. Five members have resigned. The number of members enrolled at the beginning of this meeting is 415.

A number of other members should have been dropped for non-payment of dues, but in the absence of records of due notice having been sent to them, it was thought best by your secretary not to administer the constitution too severely and rigidly. If any member has not received his 1906 Volume of the Proceedings, it may be because it has been sent to his last-known address, rather than to his present address, or because he is in arrears for dues more than one year. He should read Section 6 of the Constitution, and interview the treasurer before he forces upon the secretary the ungracious but lawful act of dropping him. Due notice having been sent to each member in arrears more than one year, the enforcement of the law of the Society must be hereafter expected. It would seem that to allow a member to be in arrears for three full years, or for $9.00 before he can be dropped from the roll, is not crowding him. It demands of the treasurer and secretary extra labor and expense to save him the trouble of drawing a check, or of promptly paying up his back dues and resigning, or of asking to be dropped. Is not the Society too lax in this rule?

The secretary will appreciate it if the members will please remember that he is not endowed with omniscience, and if

they will promptly notify him of changes in their address and title. In one case, an error was not discovered for three years, or until it had been printed and presented to the member no less than nine times. While the secretary probably makes his share of mistakes, he is not responsible for all that have been made. Twenty-three changes in title or address have been received in the last three weeks, and since Volume XIV was printed. Some changes necessitate a dozen changes in the List of Members and the Summaries.

It may be of interest to note that we still have no members residing in the states of Idaho, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Wyoming, and in Arizona, New Mexico and the Indian Territories. We have but one member in each of the seven states, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, and Utah.

At the meeting of the council, held at Ithaca after the adjournment of the last annual meeting, the secretary was requested to make a thorough canvas of the engineering colleges, schools and practitioners, for new members. The subject was discussed by correspondence by the members of the executive committee. It was decided to send a personal letter with a copy of the List of Members of the Society and the Constitution, a membership application blank and a stamped addressed envelope to those teachers of engineering subjects who were not members of the Society, and to a carefully selected list of practitioners. This was done, and some 1500 letters sent to the teachers, and over 1000 to practising engineers. The replies have been most cordial and complimentary on the work of the Society. The Society has been quite thoroughly advertised. A "follow-up" system should now be instituted.

The reasons for declining to apply for membership are numerous, but may be grouped into the following classes:

1. One practitioner says that he "honestly cannot see any reason for this Society. Your University is doing exactly this work. . . . I see no inclination among my fellowstatesmen to back up the Society." The reply to the first state