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Excerpt from Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Vol. 135: With Other Selected and Abstracted Papers
Our great European rivals relegate the examination and selec tion of their engineers to their Governments, but we, under the guidance of our immediate past-president, have taken this load on our own shoulders; not before it was needed, for the competition of highly educated engineers of other countries was becoming rather too evident. Loss of business is a potent force to efl'ect reform. The reform itself in our case has materially strengthened the credentials of our Institution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
