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Annual Meeting. 



[May 1, 



ANNUAL MEETING, 

 Saturday, May 1, 1909. 



The Duke of NoRTHmiBEELAND, K.a. P.O. D.C.L. LL.D. F.R.S., 



President, in the Chair. 



The Annual Report of the Committee of Visitors for the year 

 1908, testifying to the continued prosperity and eificient management 

 of the Institution, was read and adopted, and the Report on the 

 Davy Faraday Research Laboratory of the Royal Institution, which 

 accompanied it, was also read. 



Forty-eight new Members were elected in 1908. 



Sixty-three Lectures and Nineteen Evening Discourses were 

 delivered in 1908. 



The Books and Pamphlets presented in 1908 amounted to about 

 228 volumes, making, with 708 volumes (including Periodicals bound) 

 purchased by the Managers, a total of 936 volumes added to the 

 Library in the year. 



Thanks were voted to the President, Treasurer, and the Honorary 

 Secretary, to the Committees of Managers and Visitors, and to the 

 Professors, for their valuable services to the Institution during the 

 past year. 



The following Grentlemen were unanimously elected as Officers 

 for the ensuing vear : — 



President— The Duke of Northumberland, E.G. P.O. D.C.L. LL.D. 

 F.E.S. 



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



Secretary — Sir William Crookes, D.Sc. F.R.S. 



Managers. 



Sir Thomas Barlow, Bart., K.C.V.O. M.D. 



LL.D. D.Sc. F.R.S. 

 William Phipson Beale, Esq., M.P. K.C. 



F.C.S. 

 Horace T. Brown, Esq., LL.D. F.R.S. 

 The Rt. Hon. Sir Henry Burton Buckley, 



P.C. M.A. 

 Charles Hawksley, Esq., M.Inst.C.E. 

 Donald William Charles Hood, Esq., M.D. 



C.V.O. F.R.C.P. 

 Alfred B. Kempe, Esq., M.A. D.C.L. 



Treas.R.S. 

 The Rt. Hon. Lord Kinnaird, M.A. D.L.J.P. 

 Sir Francis Laking, Bart., G.C.V.O. M.D. 



LL.D. 

 Henry Francis Makins, Esq., F.R.G.S. 

 George Matthey, Esq., F.R.S. 

 Rudolph Messel, Esq., Ph.D. F.C.S. 

 The Rt. Hon. Sir John Fletcher Moulton, 



P.C. M.A. F.R.S. 

 Sir Andrew Noble, Bart., K.C.B. D.C.L. 



D.Sc. F.R.S. 

 The Hon. Lionel Walter Rothschild, M.P. 



Visitors. 



William Arthur Brailey. Esq. M.D. INI.A. 



M.R.C.S. 

 Arthur N. Butt, Esq., F.R.Hist.S. 

 James Mackenzie Davidson, Esq. M.B. 



CM. 

 Richard T. Glazebrook, Esq., M.A. D.Sc. 



F.R.S. 

 John William Gordon, Esq. 

 James Dundas Grant, Esq., M.D. M.A. 



F.R.C.S. 

 Major-General Sir Coleridge Grove, K.C. B. 

 Charles Edward Groves, Esq., F.R.S. 

 John List, Esq., M.Inst.C.E. 

 Sir Philip Magnus, M.P. J. P. B.Sc. 

 Robert Mond. Esq., M.A. F.R.S.E. 

 Colonel Sir Frederick Nathan, R.A. 

 The Hon. Charles A. Parsons, C.B. J.P. 



M.A. LL.D. D.Sc. F.R.S. 

 James Swinburne, Esq., F.R.S. 

 Arthur James Walter, K.C. LL.B. 



