Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress for Applied Mechanics

THE account of the work of the Fifth International Congress for Applied Mechanics is contained in a volume of 748 pages preceded by preliminary matter including the list of the four hundred members of the Congress. The proceedings consist of general lectures and short papers of about six pages, divided among three groups.Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress for Applied MechanicsHeld at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., September 12–16, 1938. Edited by J. P. Den Hartog H. Peters. Pp. xxxii + 748. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1939.) 30s. net.