108 THE ADDRESSES, LECTURES, ETC., OP 



DR. SIEMENS said he would express his most heartfelt thanks 

 for the great honour which the Council had conferred upon him 

 by awarding to him the Bessemer medal, and he had also to thank 

 the members for the cordial manner in which they had received 

 the announcement. It was naturally a gratifying thing to receive 

 an acknowledgment for hard labour, but that reward came with 

 the greater force when it came from men who were fellow-labourers 

 with himself in the same field. Nothing could be more pleasing 

 than to receive a token of their appreciation in the manner in 

 which that medal had been conferred upon him. He was much 

 gratified in receiving the medal from the hands of their President, 

 who himself had, by his elaborate researches into important 

 branches of metallurgy, given proof of deep knowledge on those 

 subjects, which had already been acknowledged by that Institute, 

 by the award of the first Bessemer medal, which was granted last 

 year. The name " Bessemer Medal " had for him (Dr. Siemens) 

 another and peculiar interest. No one in modern times had 

 produced a greater revolution by invention in the iron and steel 

 trades than Mr. Bessemer ; and, in receiving a medal to which his 

 name was attached, he (Dr. Siemens) was particularly glad to see 

 the utter want of anything approaching to jealousy that might 

 possibly exist, or be supposed to exist, in the minds of men who 

 were all working towards the same end, viz., the improvement of 

 the art upon which they were engaged. He thanked them all 

 the President, the Council, and the members of the Institute 

 most heartily for the great honour they had conferred upon him. 



REMARKS ON SIR CHARLES WHEATSTONE. 



DR. C. W. SIEMENS* (Past President) said : Mr. President and 

 Gentlemen, I have a proposition to make which I am sure you 

 will all second and approve, that is, to ask our President to allow 

 the address which he has just given us to be printed not only 

 in our Proceedings, but separately, and circulated among the 

 members. I have listened, and I have no doubt all present 



* Exceipt Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers, Vol. IV. 1875, p. 332. 



