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Excerpt from The Annual Report of the Council and Transactions of the Hull Literary and Philosophical Society for the Session 1878-1879
The Class for Practical Telegraphy has also been newly formed, and, under the direction of Mr. T. Harrison, of the Postal Telegraphs, and subject to an examination which W. H. Preece, Esq., (v.p. Inst. Tel. Engineers) has very kindly undertaken to conduct, appears likely to fulfil a very useful, intellectual, and industrial office in the town and to the above gentlemen and to Mr. Alfred Simpson, mime who has conducted a class in Technical Arithmetic (which is intended to give a general introduction to the classes in applied science), the Society owes many thanks for the work they have thus cheerfully imposed upon themselves. Additional Class-rooms and a Laboratory having been provided during the year, the Council repeat their Opinion that the utmost facility should be afforded for the development of this Branch of the Society's operations, and they hope that the attention to be given to this department of the Institution, and to the University Extension Movement, during the next few years, will result in the localisation of systematic instruction of the highest class in Hull as a centre, and in the Institute as its natural home and that the latter will, as early as possible, be affiliated to one of the Universities, so as to obtain for those Hull students who may have only limited means, or whose time must be devoted early to business, some very considerable remission of the requirement of residence. During the year the Society has added to its property and enlarged the scope of its operations by purchasing the adjacent house, No. 2, Albion-street, for the use of the School of Art, and by the erection of a Chemical and Physical Laboratory. On the completion of the latter, which has been fitted up with every modern appliance, and which will supply a great educational and scientific want in the town, it was surveyed by the Inspector of the Science and Art Depart ment, who pronounced it one of the best and most complete in England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
