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for communicating a distance of 520 miles if the law had held good, 
whereas as a matter of fact they did not get satisfactory signals at a 
distance of 40 miles. It may therefore be taken that the law would 
only hold good within very limited distances (loud applause). 
CAPTAIN BEETT—I am very glad that Mr. Gavey has given us 
these details, especially as some of them were (I thought) confidential 
in their nature. The experimental conclusions regarding the law of 
distance are most interesting. I did not know that telephoning had 
been successfully accomplished with Preece’s system ; that is a very 
important advantage attaching to it, and one which, if I had known, I 
would have introduced in the lecture (applause). 
M A JOE-GENERAL F. T. LLOYD, c.b., summed up as follows:— 
As the hour is rather advanced I am sure that I shall best interpret 
your wishes by proposing a very cordial vote of thanks to Captain 
Brett for his lecture, and for the charming experiments with which it 
was illustrated (loud applause). The nature of the communication of 
which he has given us the details is one that must be deeply interest¬ 
ing to us as soldiers and sailors first of all, but it appears from Mr. 
Gavey’s remarks that the Post Office are experimenting in this direc¬ 
tion, and I think that if those experiments are crowned with the suc¬ 
cess which we all hope they may be crowned with, a very great revol¬ 
ution will take place in the science of communicating between distant 
points. I will not detain you any further, and have only to offer on 
your behalf to Captain Brett our best thanks for his very interesting 
lecture (loud and prolonged applause). 
