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6 th December, 1881. 



The President, R. L. Patterson, Esq., in the Chair. 



A paper was read by Professor Everett, on 



REMINISCENCES OF THE PARIS ELECTRICAL 

 EXHIBITION AND CONGRESS. 



My first visit to the Exhibition was on Monday morning, 

 August 12, 1 88 1, and on entering it I went at once to the 

 British Office to report myself. Lord Crawford, the Chief 

 British Commissioner, was there, with Professor Hughes, the 

 inventor of the printing telegraph and of the microphone, whose 

 acquaintance I had made in London two years before, on the 

 occasion of a visit which we both paid, by invitation, to the 

 Laboratory of Mr. Warren De La Rue, where we witnessed 

 the performances of Mr. De La Rue's battery of 5000 chloride 

 of silver ceils, and saw the marvellously beautiful discharges in 

 his monster vacuum tubes. I received from these gentlemen a 

 warm welcome, combined with the information that on receiv- 

 ing my letter of acceptance they had written to ask me to serve 

 as one of the ten British Jurors of the Exhibition, which letter, 

 however, having been addressed to Belfast, had not yet reached 

 me. The jury were to begin work on the 20th September, and 

 continue three or four weeks. After taking a little time to 

 consider the matter as I walked over the Exhibition, I came to 

 the conclusion that I ought to make the most of such a splendid 

 opportunity of seeing what was doing in the electrical world. 

 The Congress was not to meet till Thursda}^, so I had Monday, 

 Tuesday and Wednesday free to roam about in the Exhibition 

 at my own sweet will. 



