SJA WILLIAM SIEMENS, F.K.S. 73 



Folge leisto und bitte mich als auswiirtiges Mifcglied der Gesell- 

 schaft, aufzunehmen. 



Hochachtungsvoll und ergebenst, 



DR. WERNER SIEMENS. 



An den Priisidenten der Society of Telegraph 



Engineers. 

 HIBBN DR. G. W. SIEMENS, London. 



Other members of the conference have given their adhesion to 

 our Society verbally. Professor Capanema, the Director-General 

 of Brazilian Telegraphs, has also signified his intention to join as 

 Foreign member. M. Lendi, the Director-General of the Swiss 

 Telegraphs and chief of the Bureau International, and Professor 

 Morse, our only but worthy representative of the United States of 

 America, had already joined the Society, but will have to be trans- 

 ferred to the list of Foreign members, a privilege which may be 

 claimed by all members (English or Foreign) residing permanently 

 abroad. 



Our list of Foreign members will, it is to be hoped, include 

 before long the names of many of the Inspectors-General and 

 engineers of the Telegraphic Government administrations of the 

 Continent, several of the Directors-General having promised, if 

 requested to do so, to exert their influence with the gentlemen of 

 their staffs. 



The idea of an International Society, or indeed of a practically 

 useful Society of Telegraph Engineers, could not be realised with- 

 out the publication of carefully edited transactions comprising not 

 only the subject-matter of papers that may be brought before us 

 from time to time, but of all matters of scientific or technical 

 interest relative to Telegraphy that can be brought together. 



Such transactions will be of great practical value to every 

 Telegraph Engineer or Administrator, wherever he may be placed, 

 being a reliable source of information for his guidance regarding 

 authenticated progress in telegraphic science. Hereafter, they 

 will form a valuable historic record. There is no lack of talent 

 amongst our members for the accomplishment of so important an 

 object, and it is to be hoped that the interest taken in the Society 

 by its members will be sufficient for its accomplishment. 



London is unquestionably the proper seat for such a Society, 



