496 General Monthly Meeting. [March 1 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, March 1, 1909. 



Sir Jambs Crichton-Brownb, M.D. LL.D. F.R.S., Treasurer and 

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Alfred Edward Garrett, Esq., B.Sc. F.R.G.S. F.R.A.S. 



Daniel Jones, Esq. 



Ernest Lunge, Esq. 



Thomas Horrocks Openshaw, Esq., C.M.G. F.R.G.S. 



Miss Power, 



The Rt. Hon. Sir George Wyatt Truscott, 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to Mrs. Wiean 

 for her Donation of £10 10s. to the Fund for the Promotion of 

 Experimental Research at Low Temperatures. 



The Honorary Secretary announced the decease of Professor Julius 

 Thomsen, on February 13, 1909, and the following 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 deep sense of the loss the scientific world has sustained in the 

 decease, in the 83rd year of his age, of Professor Julius Thomsen, Ph.D. M.D. 

 Hon.F.R.S. Hon.F.C.S., the eminent Danish Chemist, President of the Royal 

 Danish Society of Science, formerly Professor at the University of Copenhagen, 

 identified for his epoch-making work on Thermochemistry, published in 1882-6, 

 in four volumes, and one of the most distinguished Honorary INIembers of the 

 Royal Institution. 



On the occasion of the Commemoration of the Faraday Centenary in 1891, 

 Professor Julius Thomsen was elected an Honorary Member of the Royal 

 Institution. 



The Managers desire to ofier, on behalf of the IMembers of the Royal Institu- 

 tion, the expression of their most sincere sympathy with the family in their 

 bereavement. 



The following After-Easter Lecture Arrangements were an- 

 nounced : — 



Pkofessor Frederick W. Mott, M.D. F.R.S. F.R.C.P., Fullerian Pro- 

 fessor of Physiology, R.I. Two Lectures on The Brain in Relation to 

 Right-Handedness and Speech. On Tuesdays, April 20, 27. 



Professor Svante Arrhenius, D.Sc. Hon. F.C.S. Hon. Mem. B.I. Two 

 Lectures on Cosmogonical Questions. (The TyndaU Lectures.) On Tuesdays, 

 May 4, 11. 



Professor John Garstang, B.Litt. M.A. F.S.A. Two Lectm-es on The 

 HiTTiTES : (1) Monuments op Egypt and Asia Minor ; (2) Recent Dis- 

 coveries in Asia Minor and Northern Syria. On Tuesdays, May 18, 25. 



F. GowLAND Hopkins, Esq., M.A. M.B. D.Sc. F.R.S. Two Lectures on 

 Biological Chemistry. On Tuesdays, June 1, 8. 



