318 General Monthly Meeting. [Dec. 1, 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, December L 



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

 in the Chair. 



Charles Freshfield, Esq. 



James Morgan, Esq. and 



James Plaisted Wilde, Esq. M.A. Q.C. 



were duly elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Secretary reported that the following Arrangements had 

 been made for the Lectures before Easter, 1857 : — 



Six Lectures on Attraction (adapted to a Juvenile Auditory), 

 by Michael Faraday, Esq. D.C.L. F.R.S. &c. FuUerian Pro- 

 fessor of Chemistry, R.I. 



Twelve Lectures on Physiology and Comparative Anatomy 

 — viz. Eight Lectures on Sensation and Motion, and Four Lec- 

 tures on the Principles of Natural History, by Thomas 

 Henry Huxley, Esq. F.R.S. Fullerian Professor of Physiology, R.I. 



Eleven Lectures on Sound, by John Tyndall, Esq. F.R.S. 

 Professor of Natural Philosophy, R.I. 



Ten Lectures on Leading Questions in Geology, by John 

 Phillips, Esq. F.R.S. 



The following Presents were announced, and the thanks of the 

 Members returned for the same : — 



From— 

 Adand, H. M.D. F.S.S. (the Author)— Memoir of the Cholera at Oxford in 



1854. 4to. 1856. 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences — Memoirs. New Series. Vol. V. 



Part 2. 4to. 1855. 

 D. Treadwell, on Constructing Cannon. 8vo. 1856. 

 American Philosophical Society — Proceedings, Vol. VI. Nos. 52, 53. 8vo. 1855. 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal — Journal, No. 256. 8vo. 1855. 

 Astronomical Society, Royal — Monthly Notices., Vol. XVI. No. 9. 8vo. 1856. 

 Bache, Prof. A, D. {the Superintendant) — Report of the United States Coast 



Survey, for 1853. 4to. 1854. 

 Bell, Jacob, Esq. M.R.I. — Pharmaceutical Journal for Dec. 1856. 8vo. 

 Boosey, Messrs. (the Publishers) — The Musical World for Nov. 1856. 4to. 

 Boston Natural History Society, U.S. — Proceedings, Vol. V. No. 12-21. 8vo. 



1854-5. 

 British Architects, Royal Institute o/"— Proceedings in Nov. 1856. 4to. 



