PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS 



TO THE SOCIETY OF TELEGRAPH 



ENGINEERS. 1874. 



\_The 7\i.>entieth Ordinary General Meeting was held on 

 Wednesday, the \qth January, 1874, Sir William 

 Thomson, F.R.S., LL.D., President, in the Chair. 



The President read his Inaugural Address as 

 follows : 



GENTLEMEN, I thank you most cordially for 

 the great honour you have done me in electing 

 me to be your President for the year 1874. Our 

 first two Presidents, Mr. Siemens and Mr. Scuda- 

 morc, in their interesting and valuable addresses, 

 xplained the,- object of the Society of Tele- 

 graph Knginecrs, and have amply demonstrated 

 ison for existence. The success which it has 

 already achieved, exceeding the most sanguine 

 expectations of its well-wishers, must be very 

 gratifying to its public-spirited founders, as a fruit 



