888 General Monthly Meeting. [June 6, 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, June 6, 1910. 



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



President, in the Chair. 



Martin Onslow Forster, Esq., D.Sc. F.R.S. 

 Harry Grindell-Matthews, Esq. 

 Percival Lowell, Esq., A.B. LL.D. 

 Maurice Riiffer, Esq. 

 Lady Truscott, 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Honorary Secretary announced the decease of Sir William 

 Huggins, a Manager and Vice-President, on May 12 ; of Professor 

 Stanislao Cannizzaro, on May 1), and Professor George F. Barker, on 

 June 6, 1910, Honorary Members of the Royal Institution ; 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 most distinguished Member and Vice-President, Sir William Huggins, 

 Order of Merit, K.C.B. D.C.L. LL.D. D.Sc. Founder of the Science of Astro- 

 physics ; Past President of the Royal Society, the Royal Astronomical Society, 

 and the British Association ; and a Member of all the most important Foreign 

 Academies. 



Sir William Huggins was a pioneer in the use of Spectroscopy and Photo- 

 graphy to Astronomical Research, and made many most important investiga- 

 tions proving the constitution of comets, stars and nebulae. He initiated what 

 is known as the determination of the motion of Stars in the Line of Sight by 

 optical methods, which is universally recognised as one of the most brilliant 

 and far-reaching discoveries of Modern Astronomy. In his studies he was 

 aided by Lady Huggins, Hon.F.R.A.S., and they have conjointly published the 

 results of the investigations in many celebrated works, namely, "Atlas of 

 Representative Stellar Spectra " (1899) (for this work the Authors were awarded 

 the Actonian Prize of the Royal Institution), "The Royal Society, or Science 

 in the State and in the Schools" (1906), and " Scientific Papers" (1909). 



Sir William Huggins delivered six Friday Evening Discourses, the titles 

 being as follows : — " The Physical and Chemical Constitution of the Fixed 

 Stars" (1865), "Further Results of Spectrum Analysis as applied to the 

 Heavenly Bodies " (1869), "The Photographic Spectra of the Stars" (1880), 

 "Comets" (1882), "The Solar Corona" (1885), "The New Star in Auriga" 

 (1892), and also the Tyndall Lectures on " The Instruments and Methods of 

 Spectroscopic Astronomy" (1895). 



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

 tution, the expression of their most sincere sympathy with Lady Huggins in 

 her bereavement. 



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



