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(iEXERAL MONTHLY MP^ETIXd, 

 Monday, Febraaiy 1, l'.)()9. 



Sir James Orichton-Browxe, M.D. LL.D. F.R.S., Treasurer and 

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



William Edward Lake, Esq. 



Archii)ald Liversidge, Esq., M.A. LL.D. F.R.S. 



K. C. E. von Martins, Esq., Ph.D. 



Francis Joseph Sharpe, Esq. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Ti'easurer announced that the Manag'ers had received an 

 Anonymous Gift of £10,0()o from a Lady ; and the foUowini^ 

 Resolution, passed by the Managers at their Meeting held this day, 

 was read and unanimously adopted : — 



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

 to express to the Lady who has Anonymously and Unconditionally placed at 

 their disposal, for the purposes of the Institution, the sum of £10,000, their 

 most grateful appreciation of her munificence and discernment. They accept 

 the Gift as a timely and noble recognition of the good public work the Insti- 

 tution has done in the past, and is still doing, in the acquisition and diffusion 

 of Scientific Knowledge, and as an incitement to maintain and extend its use- 

 fulness in the unique position which it has for more than a century occupied. 



The Honorary Secretary announced the decease of Francis 

 Elgar, Esq., LL.D F.R.S. F.Vt.S.E. M.Inst.C.E., on J-nuary ir),and 

 the folloAving Resolution of Condolence, passed by the Managers at 

 their Meeting held this day, was read and unanimously adopted : — 



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

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

 Dr. Francis Elgar, LL.D. F.R.S. M.Inst.C.E., the first Professor, of Naval 

 Architecture in this country at the University of Glasgow^ and late Manager 

 of the Royal Institution, whose valuable and original contributions to the study 

 of Naval Architecture are of world-wide reputation. 



Dr. Elgar was elected a ^Member of the Royal Institution in 1<S92, became a 

 Visitor in 1901, and a Manager in 1905, which office he held until 1907. He 

 was a regular attendant at the Managers' Meetings and the Lectures, and 

 manifested a keen interest in aiding the work of the Institution by the willing 

 support he gave to the Research Fund. 



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

 tution, the expression of their most sincere sympathy with Mrs. Elgar and 

 the family in their bereavement. 



