414 General Monthly Meeting. [April 6, 



Edward Cotton, Esq. 

 Rev. Robert Everest. 

 Thomas Williams Helps, Esq. 

 Dr. Alphonse Normandy, and 

 Richard Henry S. Vyvyan, Esq. 



were admitted Members of the Royal Institution. 



The special thanks of the Members were returned to William 

 Richard Hamilton, Esq. F.R.S. M.R.I, formerly Treasurer R.I. 

 for his munificent present of a copy of the great work of Lepsius, 

 Denkmaler aus -^gypten und ^thiopien. 



The Secretary announced that the following Arrangements had 

 been made for the Lectures after Easter : — 



Eight Lectures on Italian Literature, by James Philip 

 Lacaita, Esq. LL.D. 



Eight Lectures on Sound, and some associated Phenomena, 

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

 R.I. 



Seven Lectures on the Relations op Chemistry to Graphic 

 AND Plastic Art, by E. Frankland, F.R.S. Professor of 

 Chemistry in Owen's College, Manchester. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

 table, and the thanks of the Members returned for the same. 



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 Barlow, Rev. John, M.A. F.R.S. V.P. and Sec. E.I. {the ^wi^or)— Christian 

 Restraint and Christian Love: Two Sermons preached at Kensington 

 Palace Chapel. 8vo. 1857. 

 Bell, Jacob, Esq. M.R.I. — Pharmaceutical Journal for March 1857. 8vo. 

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

 British Architects, Royal Institute of— Proceedings in March 1857. 4to. 

 Daguin, M. P. A. (the Author) — Traite de Physique. 2 vols. 8vo. Paris, 



1855-7. 

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 Mars and Saturn, as seen at Madras with an Equatoreal (March 1854, and 

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 Editors— The Medical Circular for March 1857. 8vo. 

 The Practical Mechanic's Journal for March 1857. 4to. 

 The Journal of Gas-Lighting for March 1857. 4to. 

 The Mechanic's Magazine for March 1857. 8vo. 

 The Athenaeum for March 1857. 4to. 

 The Engineer for March 1857. fol. 

 The Artisan for Jan.- March 1857. 4to. 



