1862.] General Monthly Meeting, 429a 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, March 3, 1862. 



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



in the Chair. 



John Birkett, Esq. F.R.C.S. F.L.S. 



Jonathan Sparrow Crowley, Esq. F.G.S. 



Major-General Charles James Green. 



Alexander Henderson Macdougall, Esq. 



The Rev. George Musgrave Musgrave, M*A.-^ Oxon. 



A. C. Brisbane Neill, M.D. 



Francis Pirie, Esq. 



Robert Pry or, Esq. 



Sir Joshua Rowe, C.B. 



Samuel Scott, Esq. 



Edward Henry Sieveking, M.D. 



Oswald Augustus Smith, Esq. 



Alexander John Sutherland, M.D. F.R.S. 



James Thomas White, Esq. 



Herbert George Yatman, Esq. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



Robert R. Carew, Esq. 



William Whitaker Collins, Esq. and 



John Parnell, Esq. 



were admitted Members of the Royal Institution. 



The following Letter from the Comte de Paris to the Secretary, 

 was read : — 



" Washington, February 2nJ, 1862. 

 "Sir, 



" I have just received notification that the Members of the Royal Institution, 

 among whom my brother and I had the honour of being admitted last year, 

 were to meet on the 13th of January, to draw up an Address to the Queen on 

 occasion of the sudden and irreparable loss of the Prince Consort. 



" While loyal England was offering to her afflicted Sovereign the tribute of an 

 unanimous and touching sympathy, every man in the world felt the loss of the 

 Prince whose intelligence, energy, and untiring exertions had been, during a too 

 short career, exclusively devoted to the progress of civilization and the benefit of 

 mankind. But the extent of that loss can only be fully appreciated by those who 

 had many opportunities of witnessing that domestic happiness so cruelly inter- 

 rupted and who shall always keep, with as much gratitude as regret, the vivid 

 remembrance of one who proved not only a kind relation but a friend to all their 

 family. 



" We, therefore, deeply regret not to have heard of that Meeting in time to 

 send from this distant country our sincere adhesion to the homage paid to his 

 respected memory by the illustrious Society over which he so often presided, and 

 not to have been able to avail ourselves of our privilege as Members of the Royal 



