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cal instruments, to the transmission of power, to sesh gear 
and to metallurgy ; and a multitude of other applications. 
Many of these exhibits which are being sin 2 too 2 the lead- 
ing companies engaged in electric lighting will be very large, and 
all will be in the highest fearee instructive. The his torical 
portion of the exhibition = ull; and the utente of the 
literature of electricity a magnetism hw, be an attractive 
feature to the student and pots nal m 
The utility of the exhibition will ati ba enhanced by a series 
of i> se} lectures and by a thorough system of labelling, for the 
nefit of the many to whom the exhibit would be otherwise 
snintelligibie 
e meeting of the American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science will take place in Philadelphia while the exhi- 
bition is in progress, and many members of the British Associa- 
tion, which meets this year in Montreal, have “ae their 
e adde 
a commission “which may in the name of the United States | 
conduct a National onidiuce of Electricians . . . and have the 
Pro r . 
Gibbs, John Trowbridge, C. A. Young, G. F. Brackett, Dr. 
ahl, Professors Simon Newcomb, G. F. Barker, E. a Houston, 
A. Fisk, Francis C. Van ak The first meeting of this 
commission was held on Thursday, August 7th, in Philadelphia, at 
the Hall of the Franklin Institute, under the chairmanship of Pro- 
fessor Rowland. From the scientific eminence of this Cees 
the Pri of the Conference promise to be of the first import 
another evidence of the interest which the Seethoortin 
electrical exhibition has attracted, it is worthy of note that the 
oyal Society of London has es ed it of sufficient Seon’ 
to appoint four of its members: Dr. John Hopkinson, . 
Preece, Lord Rayleigh, and Sir William Thomson, to act as its 
representati ves. 
other ihe am undertaken by private enterprise, has ever 
promised to exercise the proper function of an exhibition so 
truly as an edusationsl institution, and it is to be hoped, that y 
the intelligent use of its great opportunity, the Franklin Instit 
Am. Jour. Bar eas Serizs, VoL. XXVIII, No. 165.—Szpr., 1884. — 
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