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GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, February 3, 1908. 



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

 Yice-President, in the Chair. 



The Rt. Hon. Lord Ellenborough, 

 Alfred Mosely, Esq., C.M.G. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institutiou. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to W. J. 

 Russell, Esq., Ph.D. F.R.S., for his Donation of £100 to the General 

 Fund ; and to Charles Hawksley, Esq., M.Inst.C.E., for his Donation 

 of £100 (in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth, on 

 July 12th, 1807, of Thomas Hawksley, F.R.S., Civil Engineer), to 

 the Fund for the Promotion of Experimental Research at Low 

 Temperatures. 



The Honorary Secretary reported the decease of the Right Hon. 

 Lord Kelvin, O.M. G.C.Y.O. P.C. D.C.L. LL.D. D.Sc^ F.R S., 

 Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, Chancellor of the University 

 of Glasgow, on the 17th of December, 1907, and the following Reso- 

 lution, passed by the Managers at their Meeting held this day, wa>s 

 read and unanimously adopted : — 



Resolved, That the Managers of the Koyal Institution of Great Britain 

 desire to record at this, their first Meeting subsequent to his death, their sense 

 of the great loss sustained by the Institution and by Science in the decease of 

 Lord Kelvin. 



Lord Kelvin became a Member of the Royal Institution in 1886. He gave 

 his first lecture at the Royal Institution at the time when Faraday was engaged 

 in his epoch-making researches on Electricity and Magnetism ; and between 

 the years 1856 and ] 900 Lord Kelvin delivered a Course of Lectures on The 

 Electric Telegraph in 1863, and no less than nine Friday Evening Discourses 

 on the following subjects : " The Origin and Transformations of Motive Power " 

 (1856), "Atmospheric Electricity" (1860), "Tides" (1875), "Effects of Stress 

 on Magnetisation of Iron, Nickel and Cobalt " (1878), " The Sorting Demon of 

 Maxwell" (1879), "Elasticity viewed as possibly a Mode of Motion" (1881), 

 " Isoperimetrical Problems " (1893), "Contact Electricity of Metals" (1897), 

 " Nineteenth Century Clouds over the Dynamical Theory of Heat and Light " 

 (1900). 



On the occasion of the celebration of the Jubilee of his appointment to the 

 Chair of Natural Philosophy in the University of Glasgow, an address of 

 congratulation was presented to Lord Kelvin on behalf of the Members of the 

 Royal Institution, expressing their high appreciation of the conspicuous ser- 

 vices rendered by him in the extension and diffusion of Scientific Knowledge. 



When Lord Kelvin resigned his Professorship and came to reside in London 



