A week or two ago I commented with respect on
the Dean of Canterbury's rather unexpected mechanical qualifications as an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. My authority was the entry under the Dean's name in Who's Who: " Elected Associate M.I.C.E., 1898, on presentation of a thesis on Hydraulic Engineering." That seemed watertight enough, and so far as I know it is. But the. inference that the Dean is today an Associate M.I.C.E. is not. I am informed that in 1902 his name was removed from the roll, in which only members who have paid their subscriptions figure. Now to drop out of an organisation by the simple expedient of letting your subscription lapse is common enough. I have done it myself. But whether an entry that may mislead others as it misled me should be retained in Who's Who is another question.
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