^26 Geticral Monlhly Meeting. [May 4, 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 

 Monday, May 4. 



William Pole, Esq. M.A. F.R.S. Treasurer and Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



George Edward Dorington, Esq. and 

 Arthur Le Noe Walker, Esq. 



were duly elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



William Bowman, Esq. and 

 Major Lewis Burroughs 



were admitted Members of the Royal Institution. 



The following Professors were unanimously re-elected : — 



William Thomas Brande, Esq. D.C.L. F.R.S. L. & E., as 

 Honorary Professor of Chemistry in the Royal Institution. 



John Tyndall, Esq. Ph.D. F.R.S. as Professor of Natural 

 Philosophy in the Royal Institution. 



The special thanks of the Members were voted to Col. Sir 

 Charles Hamilton, Bart. M.R.I, for his present of Bouchette's 

 Map of Lower Canada, in ten sheets. 



The following Presents were announced, and the thanks of the 

 Members returned for the same : — 



From — 

 Hon. East India Company — Report of Public Instruction in Lower Bengal, for 



1855-6. 2 vols. 8vo. 1856. 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal — Journal, No. 258. 8vo. 1855. 

 Astronomical Society, Royal — Monthly Notices, Vol. XVII. No. 5. 8vo. 1857. 

 Bellj Jacob, Esq. M.R»t. — Pharmaceutical Journal for April 1857. 8vo. 

 Boosey, Messrs. (the Publishers)— The Musical World for April 1857. 4to. 

 British Architects, Royal Institute o/"— Proceedings in April 1857. 4to. 

 Cambridae Philosophical Society — Transactions, Vol. IX. Part 4. 4to. 1857. 

 Chemical Society — Journal, No. 37. 8vo. 1857. 



