1910] General Monthly Meeting^ l?u 



sustained by the Institution, and by Science, in the decease of Dr. Shelford 

 Bidwell, M.A. Sc.D. (Cambridge), F.R.S. Author of " Curiosities of Light and 

 Sight," and late Manager of the Royal Institution, Dr. Shelford Bidwell was 

 elected a Member of the Royal Institution in 1880, became a Visitor in 1886, 

 and a Manager in 1892. He always took an interest in Experimental 

 Scientific Research, but especially in relation to Electricity, INIagnetism, and 

 Optics. Dr. Shelford Bidwell delivered Friday Evening Discourses on the 

 subjects of " Selenium and its Applications to the Photophone and Tele- 

 photography " (1881), "Magnetic Phenomena" (1890), "Fogs, Clouds, and 

 Lightning" (1893), and " Some Curiosities of Vision " (1897). 



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

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

 and the family in their bereavement. 



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

 sense of the loss sustained by the Institution, and by Science, in the decease 

 of their Honorary Member, Professor Friedrich Kohlrausch, Member of the 

 Academy of Sciences of Berlin, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society, 

 President of the Physikalisch Technische, Reichsanstalt in Charlottenburg 

 (from 1895 to 1900), Honorary Professor of Physics in the University of 

 Berlin, and the author of numerous works giving the results of experimental 

 investigations in many branches of Physics, chiefly in connection with the 

 Theory of Electrolysis, and Physical Measurement. 



Professor Kohlrausch was elected an Honorary Member of the Royal 

 Institution in 1904. 



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

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

 their bereavement 



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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The Secretary of State for India — Geological Survey Records, Vol. XXXVIII. 

 Part 8. 8vo. 1909. 



Report on Government Museum and Connemara Library, 1908-9. 4to. 1909. 



Kodaikanal Observatory Memoirs, Vol. I. No. 1. 4to. 1909. 



Report on Progress of Agriculture in India, 1907-9. Svo. 1909. 

 Lords of the Admiralty — Greenwich Observations, 1907. 4to. 1909. 



Photoheliographic Results, 1906, and Sun Spots, 1874-1906. 4to. 1909. 



Second Nine Year Catalogue, 1900. 4to. 1909. 



Cape Observatory Annals, Vol. VIII. Part 1 ; Vol. X. Part 3. 4to. 1909. 

 British Museum Trustees {Natural History) — Hand List of Birds, Vol. V. 8vo. 



1909. 



Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaense. Vol. VIII. and Plates. Svo. 1909. 



Catalogue of Cretaceous Bryozoa, Vol. II. 8vo. 1900. 



Special Guides, No. 4 : Memorials of Charles Darwin. Svo. 1909. 

 Accademia dei Lincei, Beale, Roma — -Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Mathematiche 

 e Naturali. Atti, Serie Quinta : Rendiconti. Vol. XVIII. 2° Semestre, 

 Fasc. 10-12 ; Vol. XIX. 1° Semestre, Fasc. 1. Svo. 1909-10. 



Classe di Scienze Morali, Serie Quinta, Vol. XVIII. Fasc. 4-6. Svo. 1909. 

 Allegheny Observatory — Publications, No. 20. 4to. 1909. 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences — Proceedings, XLV. No. 3. Svo. 1909 

 American Geographical Society — Bulletin, Vol. XLI. No. 12. Svo. 1909. 

 Antiguaries, Society of — Proceedings, Vol. XXII. No. 2. Svo. 1909. 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal — Journal and Proceedings, Vol. LXXIV. No. 4 ; Vol. 



IV. Nos. 5-11. Svo. 190S-9. 

 Asiatic Society ^ Royal — Journal for Jan. 1910. Svo. 



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