Engineers and Architects Association of Southern California, 405 Hosfield Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal.

Engineers and Architects Club of Louisville, 1412 Starks Build

ing, Louisville, Ky.

Engineers' Club of Baltimore, 6 West Eager Street, Baltimore, Md. Engineers' Club of Kansas City, Robert S. Beard, Secretary, Third

Floor, City Hall, Kansas City, Mo.

Engineers' Club of Minneapolis, 17 South Sixth Street, Minneapolis, Minn.

Engineers' Club of Philadelphia, 1317 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Engineers' Club of St. Louis, 3817 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. Engineers' Club of Toronto, 96 King Street, West, Toronto, Ont., Canada.

Engineers' Club of Trenton, Trent Theatre Building, 12 North Warren Street, Trenton, N. J.

Engineers' Society of Northeastern Pennsylvania, 415 Washington Avenue, Scranton, Pa.

Engineers' Society of Pennsylvania, 31 South Front Street, Harrisburg, Pa.

Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania, 568 Union Arcade Building, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Florida Engineering Society, J. R. Benton, Secretary, Gainesville, Fla.

Institute of Marine Engineers, The Minories, Tower Hill, London, E., England.

Institution of Civil Engineers, Great George Street, Westminster, S. W., London, England.

Institution of Engineers of the River Plate, Calle 25 de Mayo 195, Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic.

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 11 Great George Street, London, S. W. 1, England.

Institution of Naval Architects, 5 Adelphi Terrace, London, W. C., England.

Junior Institution of Engineers, 39 Victoria Street, Westminster, S. W., London, England.

Koninklijk Instituut van Ingenieurs, The Hague, The Netherlands. Louisiana Engineering Society, State Museum Building, Chartres and St. Ann Streets, New Orleans, La.

Memphis Engineers' Club, Memphis, Tenn.

Midland Institute of Mining, Civil and Mechanical Engineers, Sheffield, England.

Montana Society of Engineers, Butte, Mont.

North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers,

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.

Oregon Society of Civil Engineers, Portland, Ore.

Pacific Northwest Society of Engineers, 803 Central Building, Seattle, Wash.

Rochester Engineering Society, Rochester, N. Y.

Sociedad Colombiana de Ingenieros, Bogota, Colombia.

Sociedad de Ingenieros del Peru, Lima, Peru.

Societe des Ingenieurs Civils de France, 19 rue Blanche, Paris, France.

Society of Engineers, 17 Victoria Street, Westminster, S. W., London, England.

Southwestern Society of Engineers, C. E. Barglebaugh, Secretary, 703 First National Bank Building, El Paso, Tex.

Svenska Teknologforeningen, Brunkebergstorg 18, Stockholm, Sweden.

Tekniske Forening, Vestre Boulevard 18-1, Copenhagen, Denmark. Vermont Society of Engineers, George A. Reed, Secretary, Montpelier, Vt.

Western Society of Engineers, 1735 Monadnock Block, Chicago, Ill.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTION

FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31ST, 1918.

In compliance with the Constitution, the Board of Direction presents its report for the year ending December 31st, 1918:

MEMBERSHIP

The changes in membership are shown in the following table:

Although the net increase in membership for the year, 343, is not nearly as large as in some previous years, it should be noted that the loss by death has been much greater than heretofore, and it seems remarkable that, in view of all the conditions of the war, the total number of applications received has been 844: 614 for admission and 230 for transfer.

The losses by death during the year number 109, and are as follows: Members (61): James Murray Africa, Calvin Harlow Allen, Thomas Aspinwall, Alonzo Clarence Bell, Augustus Jesse Bowie, William Bradford, Charles Otto Brown, Andrew Bryson, Herbert James Chambers, Howard Lincoln Coburn, Clarence Coleman, William Williams Crehore, James Aubrey Davenport, John Sterling Deans, Charles Webster Gay, James Currie Hallock, William Joseph Hardee, James Hayward Harlow, William Ryan Hill, Oliver Zell Howard, William Huggins, Julius Lilien Jacobs, George Alexander Just, Cassius William Kelly,

Clarence Booth Lamont, Hermann Laub, Charles Arthur Lindbery, Jesse Lowe, William Anthony Lydon, Robert Emmet McMath, Edgar Marburg, William McKelvey Marple, Alfred Boardman Mayhew, William Augustus Moncure, Augustus Mordecai, Charles John Augustus Morris, Henry Prentice Morrison, Emory Washburn Muenscher, Clarence Rufus Neher, Alexander Joseph Norris, Stacy Brown Opdyke, Jr., Logan Waller Page, Myron Hall Peck, John Howe Peyton, Edmund Moore Rhett, Marshall Pope Robertson, Albert Alonzo Robinson, John Warren Sackett, Harry Sidenius, Willis Roswell Smith, Otto Sonne, Edwin Augustus Stevens, Arnold Henry Sutermeister, John Dash Van Buren, Clarence Browning Vorce, Bernard Matthew Wagner, Leslie Abram Waterbury, John Waterhouse, Frederick William Watkins, Elliott Hinckley Wilson, Augustine Washington Wright.

Associate Members (39): Edgar Harold Annear, Robert Stuart Armstrong, William Blair Bovyer, Harris Daniel Buckwalter, Thomas Francis Curran, Robert Edward Dakin, Stanley Dean, John Hull Decker, Clarence Frederick Eberly, Albert Francis Geiger, Charles Henry Howard Gillean, James Gordon Goodfellow, Edward McKim Hagar, William Hague, Bruce Ritchie Honeyman, Guy Vincent McClure, Hunter McClure, William Menke, Ogden Merrill, Adelbert Philo Mills, James Powell Murray, John Bonaventure Murray, William Arthur O'Brien, Harold Coe Ogden, Edwin James Potter, Carey Simon Pratt, Clarence J. Rannells, Ward Hall Ream, Harold August Hastrup Schultz, George Corliss See, Robert Earle Shipley, Edgar Field Smith, Plumer Henry Smith, Austin Russell Willard Sperry, Clark Wallace Thompson, Warren William Upson, Harry Arthur Weeks, Fred Elmer Wilcox, James Wilson.

Associates (1): Rutledge Irving Odell.

Juniors (8): Edward Porter Alexander, Jay Cassius Canney, Ernest Charles Dedicke, Donald Power Denham, Richard Jeter Palmer, Jr., Frederic Borradaile Prichett, Kirby Baldwin Sleppy, Clifton L'Orignal Weekes.

LIBRARY AND READING ROOM

Previous reports of the Board have stated that the Library had been under the management of the United Engineering Society Library Board since October 1st, 1916, and that the movement of the 67 000 volumes of which there were no duplicates in the Engineering Societies Library-had been completed in February, 1917, and placed temporarily on the shelves of the Engineering Societies Library, and were available for use exactly as they had been heretofore in our old house: That the book stacks belonging to the Society, donated to the United Engineering Society, had been dismantled and erected in the new Stack Room on the fourteenth floor, immediately below the new quarters of the Society.

The books have now been moved, and are a part of the general Engineeering Societies Library.

Our present Reading Room, being on the fifteenth floor, immediately over the Stack Room of the Library, and only two floors above the Joint Reading Room, makes it possible for members and others to use the general Library from this room, through our own attendant librarians. In addition to this we maintain a collection of new books in our Reading Room, and, during the year, the experiment has also been tried of placing on our reading tables, in addition to some 300 current technical periodicals, a number of the best known non-technical magazines, such as "World's Work", "Literary Digest", and "North American Review", for the use of visitors, and it may be said that these are apparently quite as much in demand as the periodicals of a strictly technical character.

Facilities for carrying on correspondence, and for the receipt of mail for non-residents visiting the city, are furnished, and the use of the Reading Room as a place of meeting for social or business purposes, and as a bureau for securing local information has been encouraged. On the Bulletin Board in this room may be found items of current interest, and the Register which is maintained is a valuable source of reference to out-of-town members, especially in looking up friends.

As was perhaps quite natural when Headquarters were moved from our old house to this building, the attendance in the Reading Room fell off, not only on account of the change of Headquarters, but on account of war conditions, but the total attendance in the Reading Room during 1918, though slightly less, compares favorably with that of 1916, and has been 23% greater than in 1917. The increase in attendance has been specially noticeable during the last two months.

COMMITTEES

There are at present four Special Committees appointed to report on Engineering subjects, namely: Engineering Education; To Codify Present Practice on the Bearing Value of Soils for Foundations; Regulation of Water Rights; and Stresses in Railroad Track. Progress Reports from three of these Committees are expected, and the Committee on Engineering Education is expected to present its Final Report to the Annual Meeting.

In connection with the activities of the Society, the Board of Direction has appointed three new Committees:

(1) A Committee on Development of the American Society of Civil Engineers, consisting of one member appointed by each of the 22 Local Associations of Members, and seven members at large appointed by the President. This method of selection was determined upon by the Board in order that this Committee should represent the geographically widely separated membership of the Society. Under instruction of the