an iron plate. Fig. 3 is a casting in hard iron upon lace laid on dand.
Fig. 4 is a casting in gray iron upon a piece of thin summer dress goods
with machine embroidery.

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RECENT PROGRESS IN GAS ENGINEERING.


At the recent meeting of Scottish gas managers Mr. A. Macpherson, of
Kirkcaldy, the chairman, said:


THE REGENERATIVE SYSTEM OF RETORT FIRINGS.

For me to attempt, with the time at my disposal, to do full justice to
many important points which have cropped up since our last meeting, and
which will, no doubt, have been engaging your individual attention,
would be impossible. But I think there can be no doubt that, although at
our last meeting we had a very full and interesting discussion on the
different systems of regenerative retort settings, still we might very
profitably spend a little time to-day in hearing the experience of those
who have had some of the systems introduced into their works since then,
or who may have gained further experience with the system they were then
working, or have introduced improvements or modifications thereon.

For the purpose of inducing a discussion on this subject, I will give