Abstract :
In commemoration of the founding, 75 years ago, of the Société des Ingenieurs Civils de France, meetings were held in Paris, occupying three days and opened with an address by the President of France, and in New York. A cablegram expressing the felictations of the Institute was sent to the French Society by President Jewett who also appointed A. S. Garfield, A. I. E. E., Honorary Secretary for France, as a delegate to the exercises in Paris. The New York meeting was a joint meeting of the four national societies of Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and Mining Engineers and the American Section of the French society and was held on the evening of May 4. Harrington Emerson, President of the American Section of the Société des Ingenieurs Civils presided. The speakers of the evening were Gaston Liebert, director of the French Bureau of Information; Dr. C. O. Mailloux, president of the I. E. C.; William Barclay Parsons, Arthur S. Dwight and Henry Vigneron. As expressing the sentiment of the meeting, the following resolution was unanimously adopted:
