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have introduced a subject which, perhaps, more 

 properly ought to have been brought forward as 

 a communication at one of the ordinary meetings. 

 I may just say, before sitting down, that I look 

 forward with great hopefulness to the future of 

 the Society of Telegraph Engineers. I look upon 

 it as a Society for establishing harmony between 

 theory and practice in electrical engineering in 

 electrical science generally. Of course, branches 

 of engineering not purely electric are included, but 

 the special subject of this Society is now, and 

 I think must always be, electricity. Electric 

 science hopes much from the observations of 

 telegraphists, and particularly with the great means 

 of observing that they have at their disposal. 

 Science, I hope, will continue to confer benefits 

 on the practical operator. Let our aim be to 

 secure by organized co-operation that the best 

 that science can do shall be done for the practical 

 operator, and that the work and observations of 

 practical operators shall be brought together, 

 through the channels of the various sub-sections, 

 into one grand stream which this Society will be 

 the means of utilising. 



