8O HANDBOOK OF LEARNED SOCIETIES 



Distribution. No exchange. On sale by the Secretary, who will furnish 

 printed price-list on application. 



Research funds, etc. The Association has an invested fund of about 

 $150,000, the proceeds of which may be used for the endowment of 

 special committees of investigation whose reports are printed and 

 distributed free of charge to active members and sold at cost of pub- 

 lication and postage to all others. The following committees of in- 

 vestigation have been endowed under this arrangement and have made 

 reports, as follows: Committee of ten on secondary school studies 

 (reported in 1893) 5 Committee of fifteen on elementary education 

 (1895) ; Committee of twelve on rural schools (1897) ; Committee on 

 college entrance requirements (1899); Committee on normal schools 

 (1899); Committee on relation of public libraries to public schools 

 (1899); Committee on salaries, tenure and pensions of public school 

 teachers in the U. S. (1905); Committee on taxation as related to 

 public education (1905) ; Committee on industrial education in schools 

 for rural communities (1905). 



National Electric Light Association. 



Address. 136 Liberty Street, New York City, N. Y. Secretary: Dudley 



Farrand. 

 History. Organized at Chicago in 1885 ; not incorporated. 



Object. To foster and protect the interests of those engaged in the commercial 

 production of electricity, for conversion into light, heat or power. 



Meetings. Annually in May or June, alternately in New York and Chicago, unless 

 otherwise directed by the executive committee. 



Membership. Class A (member companies), 461; class B (officers or employees of 

 member companies), 65; class C (instructors and teachers of engineering and 

 related sciences), 34; class D (associate member companies), no; class E 

 (officers and employees of associate member companies), 23; honorary, 25. En- 

 trance fee : class A, $25 ; class B, $5 ; class D, $25 ; class E, $5 ; none for class C. 

 Annual dues: class A, in cities or towns of less than 20,000 population, $10; from 

 20,000 to 300,000 population, $25; of over 300,000 population, $50; class B, $5; 

 class C, $4; class D, $20; class E, $5. 



Publications. 



Proceedings, ist-28th convention, 1885-1905. Baltimore, 1886; Bos- 

 ton, 1888-89; New York, 1890-1905. 8. 



The title Proceedings does not appear on the later volumes. Conventions 



held semi-annually 1885-91. 27th and 28th each in 2 vols. 

 Recent vols. contain annual summary of electrical discoveries and develop- 

 ments, annual reports on office methods and accounting, decorative and 

 sign lighting, and advertising methods. 



Report of municipal lighting statistics. [New York], 1897-1904. 8. 

 Revised yearly. 



