540 General Monthly Meeting. [J«b' "^j 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, July 7, 1862. 



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



in the Chair. 



William Radford, M.D. and 

 William Ranger, Esq. C.E. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to Warren 

 De la Rue, Esq. F.R.S. M.R.I, for the following Presents: 



Apparatus for showing the total Eclipse of the Sun with Clock-work, adapted 



also to the Pneumatic Bell Experiments. 

 Apparatus used in Photographing the Sun. 

 Mount for holding Photographs for the Electric Lantern. 

 Apparatus for throwing Reflected Images on the Screen. 

 The same for the Corona. 

 A Screen for the Electric Lamp, 12 ft. by 6ft. in size. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

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



From 



Secretary for War {through Sir H. James, the Editor) — Abstracts of the Meteoro- 

 logical Observations taken at the Stations of the Roval Engineers, 1853-9, 

 4to. 1865>. 

 British Museum, Trustees — Description of Ancient Marbles. By S. Birch. With 

 Engravings. Part XI. 4to. 1861. 

 Select Papyri. Part IL Plates 1-19. fol. 1860. 

 Catalogue of the Birds of the Tropical Islands of the Pacific. By G. E. Gray. 



8vo. 1859. 

 Catalogue of Acanthopterygian Fishes. By A. Giinther. Vols. I.-III. 8vo. 



1859-61. 

 Catalogue of Bones of Mammalia. By E. Gerrard. 8vo. 1862. 

 Specimen of a Catalogue of Lycseuidse. By W. C. Hewitson. 4to. 1862. 

 List of Lepidoptera. Parts 19-24. 12mo. 1859-62. 

 Catalogue of Halticidse. Parti. By Hamlet Clark. 8vo. 1860. 

 List of British Diatomaceaj. By W. Smith. 12mo. 1859. 

 Guide to Exhibition-rooms (Natural History and Antiquities). 8vo. 1862. 

 Description of Reading-room. 16to. 1860. 

 Guide to Printed Books. 8vo. 1862. 



. Autograph Letters, &c. 8vo. 1862. 



Drawings and Prints. 8vo. 1862. 



Collection of Minerals. 8vo. 1862. 



Actuaries, Institute of— Assurance Magazine, No. 48. 8vo, 1862. 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal — Journal, No. 284. 8vo. 1862. 



