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I.Specimen in Testing Machine, Showing Method of Support; and End Views of Tested Timbers116845
II.Side Views of Tested Timbers116847
III.Junction of Beam and Wall Column, with Reinforcement in Place.1169115
IV.Slab and Beam Reinforcement1169121
V.El Paso & Southwestern System: Condensed Profile of Bonito Pipe Line from Bonito Creek to Pastura, N. Mex.1170167
VI.Explosion from Coal Dust in Gas and Dust Gallery No. 1; Mine Gallery No. 1; and Ballistic Pendulum1171197
VII.Bichel Pressure Gauges; and Rate of Detonation Recorder1171219
VIII.Explosives Calorimeter; Building No. 17, and Flame-Test Apparatus; and Small Lead Block Test1171223
IX.Trauzl Lead Blocks; and Powder Flames1171225
X.Separator for Grading Black Powder; Safety Lamp Testing Gallery; and Mine Gallery No. 21171231
XI.Impact Machine; and Lamp Testing Box1171233
XII.Breathing and Rescue Apparatus; and Rescue Training Room1171235
XIII.Testing Beam in 200,000-lb. Machine; and Fire Test of Panel1171247
XIV.View of 10,000,000-lb. Testing Machine1171249
XV.Characteristic Failures of Reinforced Concrete Beams; and Arrangement of Static Load Test for Reinforced Concrete Beams1171251
XVI.Brick Machine and Universal Cutter; and House-Heating Boilers, Building No. 211171259
XVII.Plan of Building No. 13, Testing Station at Pittsburg, Pa.1171277
XVIII.Long Combustion Chamber; and Gas Sampling Combustion Chamber1171279
XIX.Gas Producer, Economizer, and Wet Scrubber; and Dry Scrubber Apparatus, Long and Gas Holder1171283
XX.Charging Floor of Gas Producer; and European and American Briquettes1171285
XXI.Hand Briquetting Press; and Coal Briquetting Machine1171291
XXII.Dryer for Lignite Briquetting Press; and Lignite Briquetting Machine1171295
XXIII.Scaffolding for Concrete Water Tower, and Completed Tower1173341
XXIV.Sand Arch Experiments1174355
XXV.Normal Slopes and Strata of Newly Excavated Banks1174359
XXVI.Arch Timbers, Bay Ridge Tunnel Sewer; and Normal Slope of Loose Sand, Gravel and Cemented Gravel1174363
XXVII.Experiments on Properties of Sand1174365
XXVIII.Measuring Loss of Pressure in Subaqueous Materials; and Raising Tunnel Roof by "Bleeding" Sand through Displaced Plates1174367
XXIX.Hollow California Stove-Pipe Pile; and Chenoweth Pile Penetrating Hard Material1174385
XXX.Yacht Pier near Glen Cove, N.Y.1176449

[MEMOIRS OF DECEASED MEMBERS.]

LINUS WEED BROWN, M. Am. Soc. C.E.[1]

Died March 7th, 1910.

In the death of Linus Weed Brown, which occurred in Monrovia, Cal., on March 7th, 1910, this Society lost one of its valued members and the Engineering Profession a most able exponent.

Mr. Brown was born in Burnside, Orange County, N.Y., in August, 1856, and received his early education in the schools of that town. He studied his profession in the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N.J.