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  • This Agreement relates to the entire business of each of the parties hereto in incandescent lamps, as hereafter defined. For the purpose of this Agreement the incandescent lamp is defined as comprising all electric lamps for illuminating, heating or medical purposes, operating by any or all of the following methods: incandescence of a refractory filament, luminescence of gas, cathode incandescence (except so called arc or enclosed arc-lamps, not operating in a sealed container, and also excepting Neon, X-Ray and Radio tubes), and all of the aforesaid are hereinafter comprehend by the word lamps.[...]

  • The term "National Park" has a different meaning in Europe from its connotation in America. There it usually signifies an area set aside for educational or scientific purposes, rather than for recreation. The reserves here discussed were, almost without exception, proposed and fostered by scientists; but prominent men of affairs also were interested and their influence often was essential to realization of the project. In certain important reserves (Switzerland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Sweden) the lead was taken by organizations corresponding to our National Academy of Sciences, and these still have more or less control, especially as regards research. Popular interest in protection of rare animals and plants is always noticeable and touring organizations have sometimes been keenly active (especially in Italy). [...]