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GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, April 5, 1858. 



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

 in the Chair. 



The Marchioness of Londonderry. 

 Henry Diedrich Jencken, Esq. 

 William Jones Loyd, Esq. 

 Sir Thomas Phillips, and 

 Major-General Westropp Watkins 



were duly elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



Herbert Barnard, Esq. 

 Thomas Hyde Hills, Esq. 

 John Pyle, Esq. F.R.C.S. and 

 William Southey, jun. Esq. 



were admitted Members of the Royal Institution. 



The following Presents were announced, and the thanks of the 

 Members returned for the same : 



From 

 Her Majesti/*8 Government— MoTt&Vity of the British Army, as compared with 



the Mortality of the Civil Population in England, fol. 1858. 

 TTie Government of British Guiana — Monthly Tables of Meteorological 



Elements deduced from Observations at Demerara, from 1846 to 1856. 



By P. Sandeman. 4to. 1857. 

 Hon. East India Company— Geological Papers on Western India: with an 



Atlas. Edited by H. J. Carter. 8vo. and 4to. Bombay, 1857. 

 Agricultural Society of England, i?oya/— Journal, Vol. XVIII. Part 2. 8vo. 



1857. 

 Astronomical Society, Royal — Monthly Notice, March 1858. 8vo. 

 Bell, Jacob, Esq. M.R.I. — Pharmaceutical Journal for March 1858. 8vo. 

 Bombay Branch <f the Royal Asiatic Soctefy— Journal, No. 20. 8vo. 1857. 

 Boosey, Messrs. {the Publishers)— The Musical World for March 1858. 4to. 

 Bloxam, T. {the yiu/Aor)— Analyses of Craigleith Sandstone. 8vo. 1858. 

 British Architects, Royal Institute o/"— Proceedings in March 1858. 4to. 

 British Meteorological Society— ^port. May 1857. 8vo. 



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