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Engineering Facts and Figures for 1867. (Fullerton.)—This is a valuable

record of discoveries and suggestions, which is in this instance the more important, because it includes an account of what was to be seen at the Paris Exhibition of last year. Whether inventions and improvements are often actually lost may, perhaps, be doubted ; but it is certain that the want of some convenient record of what is achieved from year to year causes to individual workers a great waste of power and time.