720 General Monthly Meeting. [Dec. 6, 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, December 6, 1909. 



Sir James Crichton-Brownb, MD. LL.D. F.R.S., Treasurer and 

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



James Henly Batty, Esq. 



Thomas Gibson Bowles, Esq. 



Cecil Broadbent, Esq., F.R.Met.Soc. 



Captain Frank Stanley Rose, 



Harold R. D. Spitta, Esq., M.D. M.R.C.S. 



John B. Rankin Swan, Esq. 



John Sigismund Wilson, Esq. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



Geheimer Regierungsrath Professor Dr. Otto N. Witt, Ph.D- 

 F.C.S., President of the Chemical Society of Berlin, 



Professor George E. Hale, LL.D. Sc.I). Hon. F.R.S., Director 

 of the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington, 



were elected Honorary Members of the Royal Institution. 



The following Lecture Arrangements were announced : — 



William Duddell, Esq., F.R.S. M.I.E.E. M.B.I. Six Lectures (adapted 

 to a Juvenile Auditory) on Modern Electricity. On Dec. 28 {Tuesday), 

 Dec. 30, 1909 ; Jan. 1, 4, 6, 8, 1910. 



Professor W. A. Herdman, D.Sc. F.R.S. Three Lectures on The Culti- 

 vation OF THE Sea. On Tuesdays, Jan. 18, 25, Feb. 1. 



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

 fessor of Physiology B.I. Six Lectures on The Emotions and their Expres- 

 sion. On Tuesdays, Feb. 8, 15, 22, March 1, 8, 15. 



The Rev. C. H. W. Johns, M.A. Two Lectures on Assyriology. On 

 Thursdays, Jan. 20, 27. 



Major Martin Hume. Two Lectures on Europe's Debt to Medleval 

 Spain. On Thursdays, Feb. 3, 10. 



Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, B.A. D.Sc. F.R.S. M.B.I. Three 

 Lectures on Illumination, Natural and Artificial. On Thursdays, Feb. 

 17, 24, March 3. 



A. J. FiNBERG, Esq. Two Lectures on Turner. On Thursdays, March 

 10, 17. 



Henry Walford Davies, Esq., Mus.Doc. LL.D. Three Lectures on Music 

 IN Relation to other Arts. (With Musical Illustrations.) On Saturdays, 

 Jan. 22, 29, Feb. 5. 



