A CONSIDERABLE number of our home readers, at any rate, no doubt attended the meetings at which the symposium of papers on high‐temperature steels and alloys, arranged by the IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE, were read on February 21 and 22, and some of them will have taken advantage of the offer of subscribing in advance at a reduced price for the bound volume which is to be issued containing the papers presented and the discussions thereon. The fact that this privileged subscription also covered a set of advance proofs of the complete papers makes the amount asked, two guineas, one of the most remarkable bargains ever, in our experience, offered and we cannot but congratulate the INSTITUTE on its generosity, which must inevitably involve it in a heavy drain on its funds.