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WEEKLY EVENING MEETING, 



Friday, February 27, 1891. 



Sir Frederick Abel, K.C.B. D.C.L. F.E.S. Vice-President, 



in the Chair. 



Percy Fitzgerald, Esq. M.A. F.S.A. 



The Art of Acting. 

 [No Abstract.] 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, March 2, 1891. 



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



Miss Emily Aston, B.Sc. 



Henry Daw Ellis, Esq. M.A. 



Francis Fowke, Esq. 



Augustus William Gadesden, Esq. J.P. 



Miss Emily Dora Locock, 



Signer Alberto Randegger, 



The Hon. Frederick Hamilton Russell, 



John Wilson Walter, Esq. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The following Arrangements for the Lectures after Easter were 

 announced : — 



J. Scott Keltie, Esq. F.R.G.S. — Tliree Lectures on The Geography of 

 Africa, with special reference to the Exploration, Commercial Development, 

 and Political Partition of the Continent ; on Tuesdays, April 7, 14, 21. 



Edward E. Klein, M.D. F.R.S. — Three Lectures on Bacteria: their 

 Nature and Functions (The Tyndall Lectures) ; on Tuesdays, April 28, 

 May 5, 12. 



William Archer, Esq. — Four Lectures on Four Stages of Stage History : 

 1. The Betterton Period; 2. The Gibber Period; 3. The Garrick Period; 4. The 

 Kemble Period; on Tuesdays, May 19, 26, June 2, 9. 



Professor Dewar, M.A. F.R.S. M.R.I. — Six Lectures on Recent Spectro- 

 scopic Investigations ; on Thursdays, April 9, 16, 23, 30, May 7, 14. 



A. C. Mackenzie, Esq. Mus. Doc. — Four Lectures on The Orchestra 

 Considered in Connection with the Development of the Overture; on 

 Thursdays, May 21, 28, June 4, 11. 



Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, D.Sc. B.A. M.R.I. — Four Lectures on 

 The Dynamo ; on Saturdays, April 11, ]8, 25, May 2. 



H. Graham Harris, Esq. M. Inst. C.E. M.R.I. — Three Lectures on The 

 Artificial Production of Cold ; on Saturdays, May 9, 16, 23. 



Professor A. H. Church, M.A. F.R.S. M.R.I.—Thxee. Lectures on The 

 Scientific Study of Decorative Colour ; on Saturdays, May 30, June 6, 13. 



