United Engineering Society extracts from President´s annual report

For the year 1917 the noteworthy occurrences are the creation of Engineering Council, the completion of the addition to the Engineering Societies Building and the occupation by the American Society of Civil Engineers of the space thus provided for it, the addition of 67,000 volumes from the Civil Engineers Library to Engineering Societies Library; the election as Director of the Library of Harrison W. Craver, formerly of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, and the election of Alfred Douglas Flinn to serve the United Engineering Society, the Engineering Foundation and Engineering Council jointly as their secretary, with offices in Engineering Societies Building, and to undertake the new duties January 1, 1918.