1908] General Monthhj Meeting. 239 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, May 4, 1908. 



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

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



J. O'Conor Donelan, Esq. 



Harold Edward Donnithorne, Esq. 



Miss Helen Douo^las, 



William Laurie Dunn, Esq. 



The Rt. Hon. Earl Fitz\Yiniam, D.S.O. 



Miss Minnie Sophia Farrer, 



Hu^^h Erat Harrison, Esq. 



R. C. B. Kerin, Esq. 



Mrs. Carl Meyer, 



Lady O'Hagan, 



Harold Thomas Perkins, Esq. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to John 

 Young- Buchanan, Esq., M.A. F.R.S. M.R.I., for his Donation of 

 £100 to the Fund for the Promotion of Experimental Research at 

 Low Temperatures. 



The Honorary Secretary announced the decease of the Rt. Hon. 

 The Duke of Devonshire, K.G. G.C.Y.O. P.C. M.A. D.C.L. LL.D. 

 F.R.S., Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Chancellor of the 

 Victoria University of Manchester, on March 24, 1908 ; and the 

 following Resolution, passed by the Managers at their Meeting held 

 this day, was read and unanimously adopted : — 



Resolved, The Managers of the Royal Institution of Great Britain desire 

 to record their sense of the loss sustained by the Institution in the decease of 

 the Duke of Devonshire, a Member of the Royal Institution and a late 

 Manager. 



The Managers feel the Institution has lost a most distinguished Member, 

 and one whose family has long been associated with the Institution — the 

 great Cavendish having been one of its first Managers. 



The Managers appreciate the great services rendered by His Grace the 

 Duke of Devonshire in the promotion of Science, more especially in its appli- 

 cation to Industrial Development. 



The Managers desire to offer, on behalf of the Members of the Royal 

 Institution, the expression of their most sincere sympathy with the Duchess 

 of Devonshire and the family in their bereavement. 



