APPENDIX XXV INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS. ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT, SIR CHARLES BRIGHT.

JANUARY 13, 1887.

IN addressing you at the first meeting of our new session, I wish in the first place to express my most cordial thanks for the honour conferred upon me in being elected to the office of President during the present year, the more so because it is a period specially interesting to us, as in it occurs the Jubilee of the Accession of our beloved Sovereign, and also of the first practical realisation of the electric telegraph.

I am glad to be able to state that our Society continues to flourish ; and to maintain its justly acquired reputation for the value and utility of the papers read, and of the discussions upon them ; which are often of more importance than even the papers themselves, as bringing forward views and information on different sides of the questions raised; and, while I refer to this, I wish to say that I should like to hear more, if possible, during the discussions in the course of this session, from those who have not been so long in the Society as some of us, and the only way to obtain this result is that those who join in the early part of any discussion should make their remarks as concise and as much to the point as possible, so that our juniors may have time left to speak.