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GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, November 7, 1892. 



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

 Vice-President, in tlie Chair. 



Miss Emily Drummond, 



J. J. Duveen, Esq. 



Edward Johnson, Esq. 



George Blundell Longstafif, M.D, F.E.C.P. 



Robert Dobie Wilson, Esq. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Sincere Thanks of the Members were returned to Mr. 

 Thomas G. Hodgkins, of Brambletye Farm, Setauket, Long Island, 

 New York, for his muniiacent donation of $100,000 for "the in- 

 vestigation of the relations and co-relations existing between man 

 and his Creator " ; and the high appreciation of the Members was 

 expressed of the example that he has thus set to those possessed of 

 means and interested in the promotion of scientific investigation. 



The Sincere Thanks of tbe Members were returned to the Gold- 

 smiths' Company for their liberal donation of £1000 " for the con- 

 " tinuation and development of the valuable original research which the 

 " Society is engaged in carrying on ; and especially for the prosecution 

 " of investigations on the properties of matter at temperatures ap- 

 " proaching that of the zero of absolute temperature" ; and the pecu- 

 liar gratification of the Members was expressed that this gift should 

 have been made by a Company who, by the great share they have 

 taken in the founding and development of the City and Guilds of 

 London Institute for the Promotion of Technical Education, and by 

 their more recent establishment and endowment of the Goldsmiths' 

 Company's Technical and Recreative Institute at New Cross, have 

 evinced their appreciation of the application of science to industrial 

 purposes, and now by this donation to the Royal Institution show 

 they recognise the value of the initiative stage— that of purely 

 scientific research. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned for the 

 following Donation : — 



Mr. F. D. Mocatta £50 



for carrying on investigations on Liquid Oxygen. 



