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GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 

 Monday, November 2, 1908. 



Sir James Crichton-Beowne, M.I). LL.D. F.R.S., Treasurer and 

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Viscount Ridley, 



Andrew Bennie, Esq. 



WilUam Hunter, Esq., M.D. F.R.C.P. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Honorary Secretary announced the decease of the Right Hon. 

 The Earl of Rosse on x\ugust 29, of Professor E. Mascart on August 26, 

 and of Professor Henri Becquerel on August 25, and the following 

 Resolutions of Condolence, passed by the Managers at their Meeting 

 held this day, were read : — 



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

 record their sense of the loss sustained bv the Institution in the decease of the 

 Earl of Rosse, K.P. B.A. D.C.L. LL.D. D.Sc. F.R.S., Chancellor of the Univer- 

 sity of Dublin, and a Manager of the Royal Institution. 



The Earl of Rosse was elected a Member of the Royal Institution in 1870, 

 and always took an active interest in the work of the Institution, and frequently 

 attended the Friday Evening Meetings. The Earl of Rosse delivered two 

 Friday Evening Discourses on some of his most important Astronomical 

 Observations made by means of the great Telescope at Birr Castle : in May 

 1873, on " The Radiation of Heat from the Moon, the Law of its Absorption 

 by our Atmosphere, and its Variation in amount with her Phases," and again 

 in 1895, on " The Radiant Heat from the Moon during the Progress of an 

 Eclipse." 



The Managers desire to ofEer, on behalf of the Members of the Royal Insti- 

 tution, the expression of their most sincere sympathy with Comitess Rosse and 

 the family in their bereavement. 



Besolved, That the Managers of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 

 desire to record their deep sense of the loss the scientific world has sustained 



