form or other they will be presented to the forthcoming Imperial Conference.
There were altogether about 140 dclegiites from varions parts of the Empire, of whom lwtween 60 and 70 hailed from Great Britain. A few representative Bnierican mining and metnl1nrgic:il engineers also accompanied the Congress by special invitntion, but naturally they took no part in the acturil I)usiness. Practically every pnrt of our Empire W:IS represented, Canndn sending 21 and riustritlin il~Jollt 16. Youth Africa hris ii very virile technical conimunity itself, so when the Congress ~i i s officiiilly opened South Afric:ins were in great force, nntl it miiy be said here that they Colltri~Jllted the great bulk of the piipcrs.
Those \vho went from Englnntl and completed the tour accortliug to sched111e tri1vellcd abont 21,OOO miles, or n t thc rate of 240 miles per day, all very comfortnbly. Those \rho came from Ciiniidii and the U.S.11. iiritunilly had a much grciiter mileage to their credit. i h i y conferences :inti coiiucil meetings were held, iind a few Iiiid to ciirry on the business under a very great striiin. In nddition there were seven sessions a t which pipers were pr'eseiitcil iind discussed, one a t Ciipc lowi, four i i t Johtinnesburg, one rtt BuIn~v~tyo, and one a t Ihirbnn. The first meeting took plwc in Cape To~vn on llrircli 2ti, the tiny of rirriviil, and the last in Durb:in oil Miiy 2, where iniiiiy delegates left the pi1rt.y to travel tJilck to Europe viri the East Coast iind the Sliez Canal. The itttelitlillices a t all of the technicti1