1854.] General Monthly Meeting, 5 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, December 4. 



William Robert Grove, Esq. Q.C. F.R.S. Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Earl of Rosse, 



Benedict Laurence Chapman, Esq. and 



Henry Femberton, Esq. 



were duly elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Secretary reported that the following Arrangements had 

 been made for the Lectures before Easter, 1 855 : — 



Six Lectures on the Chemistry of Combustion (adapted to a 

 Juvenile Auditory), by Michael Faraday, Esq. D.C.L. F.R.S. 

 FuUerian Professor of Chemistry, R.I. 



Eleven Lectures on Magnetism and Frictional Electricity, 

 by John Tyndall, Esq. F.R.S. Professor of Natural Philosophy 

 in the Royal Institution. 



Eleven Lectures on English Literature, by William B. 

 Donne, Esq. 



Eleven Lectures on the Principles of Chemistry, by John 

 Hall Gladstone, Ph.D. F.R.S. 



The following Presents were announced, and the thanks of the 

 Members returned for the same : — 



From 

 Bell, Jacob, Esq. M.R.I.— The Pharmaceutical Journal, for November and 



December. 8vo. 1854. 

 Board of Trade — Report on the Bavarian Educational Institutions for Practical 



Science and Art. By J. Ward, Esq. fol. 1854. 

 Boosey, Messrs. (the Publishers) — The Musical World for November, 1854. 

 British Architects, Royal Institute of — Proceedings in November, 1854. 4to. 

 Civil Engineers, Institution o/— Proceedings in November, 1854. 8vo. 

 East India Company, the Hon. — Catalogue of the Birds in the Museum of the 



Hon. East India Company. By Dr. Horsfield. Vol. I. 8vo. 1854. 

 Editors — The Medical Circular for November, 1854. 8vo. 

 The Athenajum for November, 1854. 4to. 

 The Practical Mechanic's Journal for November, 1854. 4to. 

 The Journal of Gas-Lighting, November, 1854. 4to. 

 The Mechanics' Magazine for November, 1854. 8vo. 

 Franklin Institute of Pennsylvania— 3 ovLToal, Vol. XXVIII. No. 4. 1854. 

 Geological Society— Quarterly Journal, No. 40. 8vo. 1854. 

 Graham, George, Esq. ( Registrar- General) — Weekly Reports of the Registrar- 

 General for November, 1854. 8vo. 



