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Any one who will dip into them will find a quantity of original evidence which it would be hard to discover elsewhere, and this series is specially suggestive on many matters. The main results of the investigation may be stated very shortly as follows. In the first place, trades-unions, though subject to various legislative disadvantages, have spread hitherto, and are still continuing to spread, in a most remarkable degree. To mention no other example, the Society of Engineers, which has branches all over England, in our colonies, and in the United States, has increased in ten years from 15,000 to 83,000 members. In the same time its expenditure has amounted to nearly half a million of pounds sterling; and it is so powerful as to be able to fight almost any combination that can be brought against it.

The article focuses on the issue of tunneling in England. It mentions the announcement of Dover-to-Calais travelers, a combined group of English, French and U.S. engineers and economists, that a tunnel through the chalk strata between England and France was both technically and economically feasible. According to co-chairman of the Channel Tunnel Study Group Ivone Kirkpatrick, the 36-mile rail tunnel under the English Channel could bring in 26 million dollars in revenue annually.

The article focuses on a comment in the magazine "Discovery" which stated that U.S. firms have taken to using England as one of the areas where they search for scientists and engineers. The latest development is that American firms are flying British graduates over for interviews in the U.S. England used to impress American seamen into the Royal Navy and the habit caused considerable fuss among Americans.

The article reports that in February 1943, the Royal Canadian Engineers returned to England after having spent two years in Gibraltar, building an underground military hospital and other structures in a complex of tunnels, and finding ancient human remains.