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The Structural Engineer, Volume 12, Issue 3, 1934
DR. VON EMPERGER, in his introductory remarks, said: It is an honour and a pleasure to have been invited by the President and Council of the Institution of Structural Engineers to address you. I have for many years followed the activities of the Institution, and remember with genuine delight my association with your former President, the late Lieut. Colonel Moncrieff. The reputation which your Institution enjoys abroad is great indeed, and I assure you that I have the keenest interest in all your work, especially the papers which appear in The Structural Engineer, a technical journal which is going from strength to strength. I shall thank you if you will express my appreciation to your President and to your Council for the invitation to speak here this evening. Oberbaurat Dr. Fritz Von Emperger
Mr. Andrews began by recalling that almost exactly ten years ago Mr. A. S. Spencer had read a paper before the Institution on the strength of beams, and had based the opinions expressed therein upon some of the results which he had found quoted in a well-known textbook, according to which the strength of steel beams under test was actually more than had been thought to be the case. Ewart S. Andrews
The PRESIDENT (Major A. H. S. Waters, V.C., D.S.O., M.C., M.Inst.C.E., etc.), introducing Major Moncrieff, said that he was already well known to some of the members personally, but he was known to the Institution as a whole, not only by reason of the services he had rendered as its representative in India, but also because he was the bearer of a name which in the Institution would ever be honoured and remembered with gratitude.