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THE CHAIRM.AN (Vice-President Thomnas D. Lockwood):-I have the honor now of introduieing to yout Mr. Nikola Tesla, who will deliver a lecture on "Experiments with Alternating Currents of Hligh Frequency." Members of the Institute will recollect that it was Mr. Tesla who first brouight before the Institute and the public at large the possibility arid probability of electric motors operated by alternating currenits. I anm quite sure that the lecture he has to give us this evening and the experiirients which will illustrate it, will be worthy of our most earn est consideration and our most profound attention. I wish to call attention o01 this occasion to the fact that the circumstance that Mr. Tesla is not an Aimerican-bornl is only one more ingredient in the history of electricity which shows that electricity is coslnopolitan. The different mile stones of progress in electricity as applied to the arts, show us nothing more clearly than they sh1ow that. From the time when electricity was given its name by Gilbert, to the present, every civilized nation and nany individuals of many nations have contributed to the grand whole.

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