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GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, November 1, 1909. 



His Grace The Duke of Northumberland, K.G. D.C.L. F.R.S., 

 President, in the Chair, 



James Douglas, Esq., LL.D. 

 was elected a Member of the Royal Institution. 



The Honorary Secretary announced the decease of -Professor Simon 

 Nevvcomb on July 11, 11)09, and the following Resolution of Condo- 

 lence, passed by the Managers at their Meeting held this day, was 

 read and unanimously adopted : — 



Resolved, That the Managers of the Koyal Institution desire to record at 

 this, their first Meeting subsequent to his death, their sense of the loss sustained 

 by the Institution, and by Science, in the decease of their Honorary INIember, 

 Professor Simon Newcomb, Ph.D. D.C.L. LL.D. Sc.D. Hon.F.K.S. Membre 

 de rinstitut, Commander of the Legion of Honour, Prussian Order pour le 

 M6rite, one of the most celebrated Astronomers of our time. Author of numerous 

 books on Astronomy and Economics, for many years Professor of Mathematics 

 to the Naval Observatory at Washington, and whose scientific activity has 

 comprised Researches on the Motion of the Moon, the Stars and their Satellites, 

 Problems of Gravitation, and other Astronomical Investigations, On the occa- 

 sion of the commemoration of the Faraday Centenary, Professor Newcomb was 

 elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Institution, 



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

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

 bereavement. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to Sir William 

 Farrer for his Donation of £50 to the Fund for the Promotion of 

 Experimental Research at Low Temperatures. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

 table, and the thanks of the Members returned for the same, viz. : — 



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