Discussion on recent devourments in automatic telephony

(Member): Owing in one ease to illness and in the remaining cases to absence from Johannesburg, I have been unable to attend a meeting of the Institute since Mr. Watson read his paper, and I welcome this opportunity of reading even the few notes I have found time to prepare in connection with Mr Watson's paper, which is one of great interest to all connected with the fascinating problems of automatic telephony, and particularly so to myself because I happened to be in England and in close touch with keenly interested engineers of the B. P. O. and manufacturing firms for some months after Mr. Watson's return to Johannesburg.