526 General Monthhj Meeting. [May 3, 



Tlie President nominated the following Vice-Presidents for the 

 ensuing year : — - 



■William Pole, Esq. the Treasurer, 

 Rev. John Barlow, the Secretary. 

 The Lo.d Ashburton. 



William Robert Grove, Esq. 

 Sir Roderick I. Murchison. 

 Charles Wheatstone, Esq. 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 

 Monday, May 3. 



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

 in the Chair. 



dolonel Edward Francis Grant. 



Francis Ilird, Esq. F.G.S. 



George Kingsley, M.D. 



Sir Henry Charles Paulet, Bart. 



Robert Parris, Esq. 



Sir Charles Taylor, Bart., and 



Christopher Welch, Esq. 



were duly elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The following Professors were re-elected : — 



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

 Professor of Chemistry. 



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



AcTONiAN Prize. — The Managers reported. That in their 

 judgment no Essay had been received by them within the period of 

 seven years since the last award in 1851, of sufficient merit to en- 

 title the author thereof to the prize of £105 ; that consequently no 

 prize had been awarded this year ; and that the £ 105 intended to have 

 been awarded, would, pursuant to the Trust-Deed, be retained and 

 awarded with another sum of £105 in 1865, of which due notice 

 would be given. 



The Managers further reported, That the late Richard 

 HoRSMAN Solly, Esq. M.R.I, had bequeathed by his will £100 

 to the Royal Institution. 



