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of testing, and other topics may be found in the Proceedings of the American Society for Testing Materials. The report of the first Joint Committee on Concrete and Reinforced Concrete, in the preparation of which he participated, was published by several technical societies. A fairly complete list of Doctor Talbot's technical publications will be found on pages 49 to 64. Various non-technical articles and addresses have also been written. Doctor Talbot exercised a far-reaching influence on engineering developments through committee activity in engineering societies. Taking a leading part in the work of the first joint committee on Concrete and Reinforced Concrete (19041916) as a representative of the American Society of Civil Engineers, he was influential in formulating principles and methods of design based on the tests he had made and upon other data and analyses. As chairman of the sub-committee on design, he formulated and advocated many of the views that were adopted by the committee. The report of this committee exercised a marked influence, among engineers and architects, on the ideas and practices in engineering design and on building regulations, in the pioneer period of reinforced concrete construction. Most of the fundamentals of design then put forth are still accepted. The tests of reinforced concrete made at the Illinois laboratory were widely used by engineering schools and thus the information spread even more rapidly to engineering offices. In the field of testing materials he has been active in the American Society for Testing Materials since its beginnings in 1898 and has taken a leading part in the work of several of the technical committees that have done constructive work. In sanitary engineering, in railway engineering, and in municipal lines he has contributed to technical committee work and in other ways Doctor Talbot has attained high rank among engineering teachers and has been influential in the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education since its formation in 1893, • 41