404 Professor Tyndall [Jan. 17, 



1862. 



SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING, 



Monday, January 13, 1862. 



The Rev. John Barlow, M.A. F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The following Address to Her Majesty the Queen, in reference 

 to the decease of H.R.H. the Prince Consort, Vice-Patron of the 

 Royallnstitution, on December 14th, 1861, was read and unanimously 

 adopted : — 



" To THE Q[jeen's Most Excellknt Majesty : 



" May it please Your Majesty, 



" We, the Members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, respectfully 

 desire to express to Your Majesty our grief for the loss which has fallen upon the 

 Kingdom, upon our Institution, and, with exceeding weight, upon Your Majesty 

 personally. 



" May it please God, who grants consolation in His own due time, to give it to 

 Your Majesty, even while Your thoughts are directed towards Him that is gone, 

 and may the recollection of our Prince's doings whilst in life, have an abiding 

 influence for good upon the many millions who have heard of and rejoiced in His 

 name." 



WEEKLY EVENING MEETING, 



Friday, January 17, 1862. 



Sib Henby Holland, Bart. M.D. D.C.L, F.R.S. Vice-President, 



in the Chair. 



John Tyndall, F.R.S. &c. &c. 



PROFESSOR OF NATtJRAL PmLOSOPHY AT THE ROYAL IKSTITUTION. 



On tlw Absorption and Madiation of Heat by Gaseous Matter, 



Resuming with a new apparatus his experiments on the influence of 

 Chemical Combination on the Absorption and Radiation of Heat by 

 Gases, the speaker, in the investigation of which the evening's dis- 



