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away a sample and analyse it by chemical means. Employing the 

 principles and methods of Bunsen and Kirchhoff, which Professor Ros- 

 coe recently brought under our notice, might we not, suggested the 

 speaker, on the occasion of another solar eclipse give some answer to 

 this question, and add another proof of the reality of these prominences 

 by revealing something as to the nature of their constituent particles. 



Lastly, there was exhibited a photograph of the moon, obtained by 

 Mr. De la Rue at his own observatory, for the double object of showing 

 the great beauty and perfection of the pictures, and in illustration of 

 the light and shadow being different in proportion from the visible 

 image, in consequence of the actinic force of the light reflected by 

 different parts of the moon not according precisely with its luminosity. 



[M. F.] 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, May 6, 1861. 



Sib Henry Holland, Bart. F.R.S. M.D. Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Hon. Lieut.-Gen. Thomas Ashburnham, C.B. 

 Lieut.-Colonel W. MacGeorge, and 

 William Reid, Esq. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



H.R.H. The Count of Paris, 

 H.R.H. The Duke of Chartres, 

 Stephen Goodfellow, Esq. M.A. and 

 Alexander Mackintosh, Esq. 



were admitted Members of the Royal Institution. 



The following Professors were re-elected : — 



William Thomas Brande, Esq. D.C.L. F.R.S. Hon. Professor 

 of Chemistry. 



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



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

 table, and the thanks of the Members returned for the same : viz. 



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 Anonymous — The Squire : a Biographical Sketch. IGmo. 1861. 

 Arts, Society o/*— Journal, April 1861. 8vo. 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal— ioyxvn^X, No. 279. 8vo. 1860. 

 Astronomical Society, ttoyal — Monthly Notices, March 1861. 

 Bombayy Medical and Physical Society o/"— Transactions for 1859. 8vo. 1860. 



