1910] 



Annual Meeting. 



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ANNUAL MEETIN(^, 



Monday, May 2, 1910. 



The Duke of Northumberland, K.G. P.O. D.O.L. LL.D. F.R.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



The Annual Report of the Committee of Visitors for the year 

 1909, testifying to the continued prosperity and efficient management 

 of the Institution, was read and adopted, and the Report on the Davy 

 Faraday Research Laboratory of the Royal Institution, which accom- 

 panied it, was also read. 



Thirty-three new Members were elected in 1909. 



Sixty-three Lectures and Twenty Evening Discourses were 

 delivered in 1909. 



The Books and Pamphlets presented in 1909 amounted to about 

 258 volumes, making, with 728 volumes (including Periodicals bound) 

 purchased by the Managers, a total of 986 volumes added to the 

 Library in the year. 



Thanks were voted to the President, Treasurer, and the Honorary 

 Secretary, to the Committees of Managers and Visitors, and to the 

 Professors, for their valuable services to the Institution during the 

 past year. 



The following Gentlemen were unanimously elected as Officers 

 for the ensuing year : 



President— The Duke of Northumberland, K.G. P.O. D.C.L. LL.D. 



F.R.S. 

 Treasurer — Sir James Crichton-Browne, M.D. LL.D. D.Sc. F.R.S. 

 Secretary — Sir William Crookes, LL.D. D.Sc. F.R.S. 



Managers. 



Sir Thomas Barlow, Bart., K.C.V.O. M.D. 



LL.D. D.Sc. F.KS. Pres.R.C.P. 

 William Phipson Beale, Esq., M.P. K.C. 



F.C.S. 

 Henry B. Armstrong, Esq., LL.D. D.Sc. 



F.R.S. 

 The Right Hon. Sir Henry Burton Buckley, 



P.O. M.A. 

 Sir John Wolfe Barry, K.G.B. LL.D. F.R.S. 

 Sir Henry Cunynghame, K.O.B. M.A. 

 Alfred B. Kempe, Esq., M.A. D.C.L. Treas.R.S. 

 Sir William Huggins, O.M. K.C.B., D.C.L. 



F.R.S. 

 Sir Francis Laking, Bart., G.G.V.O. M.D. 

 Alexander C. lonides, Esq. [LL.D. 



George Matthey, Esq., F.R.S. 

 Rudolph Messel, Esq., Ph.D. F.C.S. 

 The Right Hon. Earl of Plymouth, P.O. 



G.B. M.A. D.L. J.P. 

 The Right Hon. Sir James Stirling, P.C. 



LL.D. F.R.S. 

 Sir PhiUp Watts, K.G.B. LL.D. D.Sc. F.R.S. 



Visitors. 



William Arthur Brailey, Esq., M.D. M.A. 



M.R.C.S. 

 Sir Frederick Fison, Bart., M.A. F.C.S. 

 James Mackenzie Davidson, Esq., M.B. 



CM. 

 Arthur Croft Hill, Esq., M.D. M.R.C.S. 

 John William Gordon, Esq. 

 James Dundas Grant, Esq., M.D. M.A. 



F.R.C.S. 

 Major-General Sir Coleridge Grove, 



K.C.B. 

 Charles Edward Groves, Esq., F.R.S. 

 A. Henry Savage Landor, Esq. 

 Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Mus.Doc. D.C.L. 



LL.D. 

 Robert Mond, Esq., M.A. F.R.S.E. 

 Major Percy A. MacMahon, R.A. Sc.D. 



F.R.S. 

 Commendatore G. Marconi, LL.D. D.Sc. 

 Emile R. Merton, Esq. 

 Samuel West, Esq., M.D. M.A. F.R.C.P. 



