Many readers of this journal will learn, with sincere regret,
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that M. Leon Serpollet, the eminent French engineer, and one of the most brilliant workers in the field of superheated steam, died in Paris on Monday last, at the age of 42, after a long and painful illness. The writer met M. Serpollet, for the first time, in July 1896, when he was one of a party of French automobilists who, in common with English pioneers, enjoyed the hospitality of Sir David Salomons, Bart., President of the Self-Propelled Traffic Association. at a series of meetings in London and elsewhere. The loss of M. Serpollet's energies and genius cannot be estimated, but there is, for those with whom he was associated in business, some consolation in the fact that he had worked out his system to a high state of perfection, and had overcome nearly all, if not all, his earlier constructional and operating difficulties.