L.G. Tillotson prepared a series of letters

Our European Correspondence.

WHEN recently in Europe our esteemed friend, Mr. L. G. TILLOTSON, made arrangements with an able and experienced writer to prepare for him a series of letters on electrical and telegraph matters. The first of these communications has just been received, and we are indebted to him for kindly furnishing it to us for publication in THE TELEGRAPHER. It appears in another column, and will no doubt be read with much interest by American telegraphers and electricians. It furnishes a clear and succinct account of the formation of the Society of Telegraphic Engineers in London, which has already been recorded in this paper, and of which our associate Editor, Mr. F. L. POPE, is an honorary member. The difficulties encountered in establishing a telegraphic organization there will read familiarly to those who have had a hand in attempting to establish an organization of telegraphers in this country. The character and objects of the English organization, it should be stated, are different from that of any which has been attempted in this country. A telegraph engineer, in the English acceptation of the term, is not professionally a telegraph operator - which there constitutes a separate, distinct, and professionally much inferior class. The objects of the Society of Telegraph Engineers are mainly of a scientific character, and it already numbers among its members most of the leading electrical and telegraphic scientists of Great Britain.

We are pleased to hear of the prosperity of this organization, for, as the writer states, it is calculated to accomplish much good. We hope to have frequent contributions to our columns from his able pen, through the kindness and courtesy of Mr. TILLOTSON.