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WEEKLY EVENING MEETING, 



Friday, May 2, 1890. 



William Crookes, Esq. F.R.S. Vice-President, in tlie Chair. 

 Walter H. Pollock, Esq. M.A. 



Tfieophile Gautier, 



[No Abstract.] 



[The whole discourse is printed in the August number of " Longman's Magazine."] 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, May 5, 1890. 



The Duke of Northumberland, E.G. D.C.L. LL.D. President ; and 



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



Treasurer and Vice-President, in the Ghair. 



The following Vice-Presidents for the ensuing year were 

 announced : — 



Sir Frederick Abel, C.B. D.C.L. F.R.S. 



William Crookes, Esq. F.R.S. 



Edward Frankland, Esq. D.C.L. LL.D. F.R.S. 



William Huggins, Esq. D.C.L. LL.D. F.R.S. 



The Right Hon. Earl Percy, F.S.A. 



Basil Woodd Smith, Esq. F.R.A.S. F.S.A. 



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



Sir Frederick Bramwell, Bart. D.C.L. F.R.S. Hon. Secretary. 



Harry Baldwin, Esq. M.R.C.S. 

 A. R. Binnie, Esq. M. Inst. C.E. 

 Miss Frances Busk, 

 J. S. Jeans, Esq. 

 A. Kirkman Loyd, Esq. 

 Ronald A. Scott, Esq. F.R.G.S. F.Z.S. 

 Mrs. John I. Thornycroft, 

 John Jewell Vezey, Esq. F.R.M.S. 

 Laundy Walters, Esq. 

 were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to the Black- 

 man Ventilating Company for their present of a Ventilating Fan, 

 with fittings, and for their liberal offer to place the time of their 

 engineers always at the service of the Institution. 



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