24 General Monthly Meeting. [Feb. 3, 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, February 3, 1890. 



Sir James Crichton Browne, M.D. LL.D. F.E.S. Treasurer and 

 Vice-President, in tlie Chair. 



F. W. Fison, Esq. M.A. (Oxon.) F.C.S. 

 Dr. C. A. Martius, 

 The Right Hon. Earl Russell, 

 William Schooling, Esq. F.R.A.S. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned for the following 

 Donation to the Fund for the Promotion of Experimental Research : — 



Professor Dewar, 50Z. 



The decease of Sir William Withey Gull, Bart. M.D. D.C.L. 

 F.R.S. M.B.I, on January 29th, was announced from the Chair. 



The following Resolution passed hj the Managers at their 

 Meeting this day was read : — 



Resolved: — That the Managers of the Koyal Institutioa of Great Britain 

 desire, at this, their first Meeting after the death of Sir William Withey Gnll, to 

 place on record in their minutes their sense of the great loss sustained by the 

 death of one who, for nearly thirty years, had been a Member of the Institution ; 

 who had occupied the Chair of Fullerian Professor of Physiology, and who, quite 

 recently, had been one of their colleagues on the Board of Management, and who 

 had, on every occasion, shown the deep interest he took in the Institution, and 

 in the welfare of all connected with it. 



The Managers further desire to be permitted to offer to Lady Gull the 

 expression of their most sincere sympathy and condolence with her in her 

 bereavement. 



Fesohed : — That the Honorary Secretary do send to Lady Gull a copy of this 

 Resolution. 



The following resolution passed by the Managers at their Meeting 

 this day was read : — 



Resolved : — That the thanks of the Managers of the Institution be given to the 

 National Telephone Company for the great assistance which they rendered to 

 Professor Riicker in illustrating his Course of Christmas Lectures, by so kindly 

 enabling him to show the operations of the Telephone as actually employed for 

 exchange work. 



Resolved: — That the Honorary Secretary do send to the Company a copy of 

 this Resolution. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

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



FROM 



The Governor-General of India — Geological Survey of India : Records, Vol. XXII. 



Part 4. 4to. 1889. 

 The Lords of the Admiralty— ^diwiicul Almanack, 1893. 8vo. 1889. 



