Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-04-08

Distinguished Men to Preside at Different
Mectings-The Addresses.
The program for the second public meeting
tonight at Lincoln Hall, over which Secretary
Noble will preside, is as follows:
Hon. John W. Daniel, LID, of Virginia,
United States Senator-"The New South as an
Outgrowth of Invention and the American
Patent Law
Hon. Edwin Willis of Michigan, assistant
secretary of agriculture-'The Relation of In
vention to Agriculture"
Special reception to inventors and manu-
facturers and the ladies who accompany them
at the patent office April from to II 30 n. m
by the Secretary of the Interior and the COM
missioner of patents and ladies of their official
families.
The program for the other DAYS is as follows:
Third public meeting, Thursday, April 9. 2
pm, presided over by Hon. Frederick Fraley,
LID, president OF tie National Board of
Trade of the American Philosophical Society
and charter member of Franklin Institute
Hon. Benjamin Butterworth of Ohio, United
States House OF Ecprcsentatiyes-'The Effect
OF Our Patent System on the Material Develop
ment of the United States"
Octave Chanute of Illinois. president of the
American Society of Civil Engincers-..The
Effect of Invention Upon the Railroad and
Other Means OF lntercommunication."
Hon. A. X. Spofford, LID, Librarian United
States Consress--.'1he Copyright system of
the United States: Its Origin and Its Growth. y
Thos- Gray. {. E., b. Sc, L. r. S. E.. of Indi-
ana, professor Of dynamic engineering Rose
Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute-.sThe In
yentors of the Telegraph and Telephone
Col. f. 4. Seely of PENNSYLVANIA, principal
examiner, United States patent oiiice-"Inter-
national Protection of Industrial Property"
Fourth public meeting, Thursday April Q.
pm, presided over by Prof. ). Z. langley,
LID, secretary OF the Smithsonian Institution
William p. 1rowDridge, Ph.D.. LID, of
New York, professor OF Engineering School of
Mines. Columbia College-"The Eject of Tech
biological Schools upon the Progress OF Inven-
ton
Robert II. Thurston, AN, LID, Doc. Eng,
OF New iork, director and professor of me-
chanical engineering. Sibley College Cornell
University The Invention of the Steam En-
CINE"
Cyrus F. Bracket. Md. LID. of New Jer-
sey, Henry professor of physics. College of
New Jersey, Princeton-''1he Eject of In
rentlon >, upon the Progress of Electrical
Science"
Maj. Clarence E. Dutton, ordnance depart
ment, U. s. A.-''The Influence of Invention
Upon the Implements and Munitions Of Mod
ern Warfare"
Prof. F W. Clarke. S. B., Of Ohio, chief
chemist United States geological survey-"Ihe
Ielations OF Abstract Scientific Research TO
Practlcal invention, with Special Reference to
Chemistry and Physics"
/ Anniversary day, April 10. anniversary of
! the signing OF the first American patent law
IAN Act 10 Promote the Progress OF the Useful
Arts by George Washington.
| Nine am. excursion to Mount Vernon where
an address viii DC delivered by ]. VI. Toner.
ND, OF Washington. upon Washington as an
/ Inventor and Promoter of improvements
/ Two pm. inspection Of ordnance shops, WASH
/ lngton navy yard, by invitation OF the Secre-
/ tary OF the Navy: 4:3O p. m. review by the Pres
| ident OF regular troops, National Guard and
! High School Cadets on the White Lot, south of
I the Executive Mansion.
Filth public meeting. Friday, April 10, 8
Pm, presided over by Prof. Alexander Graham
BELL
Hon. William T. Harris, commissioner OF
charlottesville Relation of Invention to the
Communication of Intelligence and the Diffu-
sion OF knowledge by Newspaper and Book. u
/ Prof. OTIS A. Mason. Ph.D., of Virginia
curator United States National Museum-..Tht
Birth of Invention"
/ Edward Atkinson, Phi. D., LID, Of Massa
chGsetts-''Inyention in Its Effects Upon House
hold Economy"
DIR. John 5. Billings, curator United States
Army Medical Museum American Invention
and Discoveries in Medicine, Surgery and Prac
iical Sanitation"