PROFESSOR KENNELLY TO GIVE PUBLIC LECTURE

Professor A. E. Kennelly, for seven years principal electrical assistant to Thomas Edison, on Thursday afternoon at 4.30 o'clock will give the first of a series of popular illustrated lectures to be delivered by members of the staff of the Harvard Engineering School during the spring term. He will speak in Pierce Hall, Oxford Street, Cambridge.

The subject, "The Development of the Modern Submarine Telegraph Cable", is one upon which Professor Kennelly is regarded as an authority. Before he became the principal electrical assistant to Edison. Professor Kennelly was chief electrician of a cable repairing steamer and senior ship's electrician of the Eastern Telegraph Cable Company. He was the engineer in charge of laying the Vera Cruz-Frontera-Compeche cables for the Mexican government in 1902.

The remaining lectures of the series; which will be given on consecutive Thursday afternoons, will describe important developments and discoveries in various other fields of engineering.