Engineering Society.

The first of the series of public lectures by prominent engineers under the auspices of the Engineering Society will be given Friday in the Fogg Museum. Col. H. G. Prout, who is to speak on "General Gordon and the Soudan," was one of "Chineses" Gordon's right hand men in Egypt and Africa, and saw a great deal of hard service and fighting. He was at one time governor of the Province of the Equator under the Khedive, and took the first steamboat to the Victoria Nyanza under great difficulties. The address cannot fail to prove interesting. Chief Engineer Melville of the Navy, who spoke here two years ago on the Arctic expedition of the "Jeanette," also will be one of the lecturers this winter.