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A MEETING of the honorary council of advice in connection with the Crystal Palace Electrical Exhibition, which is to be opened on January I next, was held last week at the Mansion House. The Lord Mayor presided. Mr. Gardner, the secretary of the Crystal Palace Company, read the report of the directors, in which they referred to the Electrical Exhibition at the Palace in 1881, and to the enormous strides which had since been made in the industry. The Exhibition of 1881 was recognized as the pioneer of electrical engineering in this country, and it was confidently believed that the Exhibition of 1892 would be remembered in history “as showing that the infant Electra has grown to years of maturity, and is capable of further aiding science, commerce, and the world at large.” The space available had been over-applied for, and every section of the industry would be well represented. Invitations would be issued to public bodies throughout the United Kingdom to visit the Exhibition, where the various systems of electric lighting would be on view, and in this direction alone very great saving of expense to the authorities would be effected, and other advantages must, the directors believed, also accrue. On the motion of Mr. W. H. Preece, the following gentlemen were appointed to act as a committee of experts in connection with the exhibits: Profs. W. Grylls Adams, W. E. Ayrton, W. Crookes, D. E. Hughes, A. B. W. Kennedy, J. Perry, and Silvanus Thompson, Major P. Cardew, Sir J. N. Douglass, Mr. W. B. Esson, Mr. Gisbert Kapp, and Mr. Preece.