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GENERAL MOXTHLY MEETING, 

 Monday, April 4, 1910. 



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



President, in the Chair. 



Kenneth Alfred Wolfe Barry, Esq. 



Herbert Campbell, Esq. 



Robert Henry Cole, Esq., M.D. 



Sigismund Goetze, Esq. 



Emanuel Green, Esq. 



Hugh Greenwood Hammersley, Esq. 



Alexander Harvey, Esq. 



Joseph Kitchin, Esq. 



Sir James Reid. Bart., G.C.V.O. K.C.B. M.D. 



Miss Harriet Urquhart, 



Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, K.C.I.E. D.Sc. LL.D. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



Professor Sir James Dewar, acting on behalf of the Honorary 

 Secretary, announced the decease of Professor Knut Johan Angstrom 

 on March 4, and of Geheimer Regierungs Rath Professor Hans Lan- 

 dolt on March 14, 1910, and the following Resolutions, passed by the 

 Managers at their Meeting held this day, were read and unanimously 

 adopted : — 



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 Knut Johan Angstrom, Professor of Physics 

 at the Royal University, Upsala [son of the distinguished Professor Anders 

 Jonas Angstrom, who was a former Honorary Member of the Royal Institu- 

 tion], celebrated for his discoveries in Spectrum Analysis, especially directed 

 to the infra red absorption of the constituent gases of the atmosphere, in 

 addition to the methods and determination of the constant of Solar Radiation, 



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

 tution, the expression of their most sincere sympathy with Madame Angstrom 

 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, Geheimer Regierungs Rath Professor Hans Landolt, 

 Honorary FeUow of the Chemical Society, and Professor of Chemistry at the 

 University of Berlin from 1891 imtil 1905. The relations between the mole- 

 cular refraction of chemical compounds, and the refraction of the constituent 

 atoms discovered by Professor Landolt, have become of great importance for 

 the discrimination of the constitution of organic compounds. His work on 



