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There was another question of a somewhat delicate nature upon 

 which he had to touch. In the course of the discussions at their 

 last meeting, Mr. Bessemer made a remark regarding a well-known 

 engineering firm in France which (whatever the extent to which 

 those remarks might or might not be called for) were not applicable 

 to the objects of their Institution. That Institution had nothing 

 whatever to do with legal matters, and he regretted that those 

 remarks had found their way into the Transactions. He had 

 hoped after the letter had been received from Messrs. Schneider 

 and Co. that there would have been time to erase those remarks ; 

 but the volume was already progressing in type, and all they could 

 do was to publish Mr. Schneider's letter in the same volume ; but 

 he wished there to give testimony to the liberal and honourable 

 manner in which that firm had dealt with him, and in which they 

 were known to deal generally in the transaction of their business. 

 He thought it was due to them that he should make that state- 

 ment in order to let the matter appear simply as an incidental 

 thing, which they all rather regretted, without wishing to throw 

 the slightest imputation upon the position of an honourable firm. 



THE ELECTRIC LIGHT. 



To THE EDITOR OF " ENGINEERING." 



SIR, In your very able article of this week upon " The Electric 

 Light " there is only one matter, personal to myself, calling for 

 an observation on my part. You say, "The most important 

 discovery connected with this subject was made by Dr. C. W. 

 Siemens and the late Sir Charles Wheatstone simultaneously, but 

 independently of each other, and the discovery was brought before 

 the Royal Society on the same evening." 



It is true that upon that occasion I presented to the Royal 

 Society a paper describing the action of a machine which I had 

 constructed in this country, but the merit of the discovery of 

 the principle upon which it acted is really due to my brother, 

 Dr. Werner Siemens, who presented a memorial to the Berlin 





