1859.] General Monthly Meeting. 137 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, May 9, 1859. 



The Lord Wensleydale, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary announced that His Grace the President had 

 nominated the following Vice-Presidents for the ensuing year : — 



Sir B. C. Brodie, Bart. D.C.L. Pres. R.S. 



Sir Henry Holland, Bart. M.D. F.R.S. 



The Lord Wensleydale. 



Col. Philip J. Yorke, F.R.S. 



William Pole, Esq. M.A. F.R.S. the Treasurer. 



The Rev. John Barlow, M.A. F.R.S. the Secretary. 



Charles Brett, Esq. 



David Chapman, Esq. 



Miss Geraldine Clendinning, 



Peter Dickson, Esq. 



Flemyng George Gyll, Esq. 



Richard Coxwell Rogers, Esq. 



Charles William Siemens, Esq. and 



The Earl Stanhope, D.C.L. F.R.S. Pres. Soc. Antiq. 



were duly elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart, and 

 Alfred Henriques, Esq. 



were admitted Members of the Royal Institution. 



The following Professors were re-elected : — 



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

 fessor of Chemistry. 



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



The following Presents were announced, and the thanks of the 

 Members returned for the same : — 



From 

 The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty— C^iT^t, T. Spratt: Investigation of the 

 Effect of the Prevailing Wave-influence on the Nile's Deposits, fol. 1859. 

 Commissioners in Zunac^— Appendix to Twelfth Report. 8vo. 1859. 



