Annual meeting of mechanical engineers

The preliminary program of the Forty-sixth Annual Meeting of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers November 30th through December 4th holds high promise of profit and pleasure to those in attendance. About forty-five technical papers will be presented, and one special feature of the meeting will be the conferring of Honorary Membership in the Society on Honorable Herbert Hoover and Past President Worcester R. Warner. This event will occur on the evening of Tuesday, December 1st, just preceding the Presidential address of Doctor William F. Durand. An innovation at the meeting will be the delivery of the first Henry R. Towne and Robert Henry Thurston Lectures. The Towne lecture will deal with the relation of Engineering to Economics while the Thurston lecture will be on the subject of Engineering and Science. At the Annual Dinner, Wednesday evening, December 2d, the speaker will be one of the leading statesmen of the country. Thursday evening will be given over to a National Defense Session, when industrial leaders will report the progress being made toward perfecting the national program for industrial preparedness.