English edition. Thanks are due to the various firms Who have kindly supplied the blocks and information relating to their lamps; to Mr. W. Perren Maycock for description of the British Westinghouse flame arc lamp; and to friends, notably Mr. Arthur Bentley, for the reading of proofs.

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