736 General Monthhj Meeting. [Feb. 7, 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, February 7, 1910. 



Sir Ja:\ies Crichton-Browxe, M.A. LL.D. F.R.S.. Treasurer and 

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Henry Hermann Gruning, Esq., M.Sc. F.R.A.S., 

 Kenneth Robert Hay, Esq., M.A. M.B., 

 Henry Keatley Moore, Esq., J. P. B.A., 

 Mrs. Sington. 

 were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Honorary Secretary announced the decease of Dr. Ludwig 

 Mond on December 11, 1909, of Dr. Shelf ord Bidwell on December 18, 

 1909, and of Professor Friedrich Kohlrausch on January 17, 1910, 

 and the following Resolutions, passed V)y the Managers at their 

 Meeting held this day, were read and unanimously adopted : — 



Resolved, That the ^Managers desire to record their sense of the loss sus- 

 tained by the Royal Institution, and by Science, in the decease of Dr. Ludwig 

 Mond, Ph.D. (Padua and Heidelberg), D.Sc. (Oxon and Victoria), F.R.S. 

 F.C.S. F.I.C. Grand Cordon of the Crown of Italy, i\Ieniber of the Accadeuiia 

 dei Lincei, Rome, one of the most distinguished Industrial Chemists, President 

 of the Society of Chemical Industry (1899) and of the Chemical Section of the 

 British Association (189G). 



Dr. Mond was distinguished for his discovery of the novel and remarkable 

 class of Volatile Compounds of Carbonic Oxide with the Metals, and as the 

 author of technical improvements in the manufacture of Alkali by the 

 Ammonia Soda Process, and of processes of Production of Pure Nickel from 

 its Ores. 



Dr. Mond became a Member of the Royal Institution in 1883, a Visitor in 

 1889, a Manager in 1891, and Vice-President in 1894. He delivered a Friday 

 Evening Discourse on June 3, 1892, on " Metallic Carbonyls." 



Dr. Mond transferred to the Members of the Royal Institution, under a 

 Deed of Trust in 1896, the Freehold of the house, No, 20 Albemarle Street, 

 together with the furniture, apparatus, and appliances therein, and founded 

 the Davy Faraday Research Laboratory of the Royal Institution, for the 

 purpose of promoting, by original research, the development and extension of 

 chemical and physical science, making a generous endowment to carry on the 

 work of the Laboratory, and also providing increased accommodation for the 

 Royal Institution. He always showed his keen interest in the work carried 

 out in the Royal Institution by liberally contributing towards the promotion 

 of experimental research at low temperatures, and also to the general fund of 

 the Institution. 



The jNIanagers desire to offer, on behalf of the Members of the Royal 

 Institution, their expression of the most sincere sympathy with Mrs. Mond 

 and the family in their bereavement. 



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

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



