1856.] 



General Monthly Meetiiig, 



261 



Aberrantia. 



TOXODONTIA 



Toxodon 

 Nesodon. 



Proboscidia 

 Elephas 

 Mastodon 

 Dinotherium. 



SiRENIA 



Manatus 



Halicore 



Rytina 



Halitherium 



Prorastomus. 



[R. 0.] 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, May 5. 



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

 in the Chair. 



C. W. Dilke, Esq. 



C. Wentworth Dilke, Esq. and 



George Hudswell Westerman, Esq. 



were duly elected 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. 



A special vote of thanks was given to the Lord Stanley, 

 M.P. M.R.I, for his present of a Magneto-Electric Machine, by 

 Watkins and Hill. 



The following Presents were announced, and the thanks of the 

 Members returned for the same : — 



From— 



Her Majesty's Government (hy Sir R. I. Murchison)— Memoirs of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of the Unitea Kingdom : British Organic Remains, Decades 

 V. &VIII. 4to. 1855-6. 



Administration of the Mines in Russia — Compte Eendu Annuel, pour 1854. 

 Par A. T. KupflFer. 4to. 1855. 



Arnold, Thomas James, Esq. Life Sub. R.I. — The Law Amendment Journal, 

 for April 1856. 



Astronomical Society, Roj^al — Monthly Notices. Vol. XVI. No. 6. 8vo. 1856. 



Author— The Great Arctic Mystery. 8vo. 1856. 



Bache, Dr. A. 1). {the Superintendant) — Annual Report of the United States 

 Coast Survey, 1853. 4to. 



