1910] General Monthly Meeting. 889 



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

 of their Honorary Member, Professor Stanislao Cannizzaro, Hon.F.R.S., 

 Hon.F.C.S., Senator of the Kingdom of Italy, Ofdcier de la Legion d'Honneur, 

 Corresponding Member of the Academy of Science, Paris, Professor of 

 Chemistry at E-ome. 



Professor Cannizzaro delivered the Faraday Lecture so long ago as 1872, 

 which he entitled " Considerations on some Points of the Theoretic Teaching 

 of Chemistry" ; and on the occasion of the Faraday Centenary Commemora- 

 tion in 1891 he was elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Institution. 



His monumental work on the classification of the Atomic Weights of the 

 Elements by means of Specific Heats has been universally recognised as mark- 

 ing an epoch in the development of Chemical Science, and for which general- 

 isation his name will always be associated with that of Avogadro. 



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

 tution, the expression of their most sincere sympathy with 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 distinguished Honorary Member, Professor George Frederick Barker, 

 Sc.D. (Pennsylvania), LL.D. (Allegheny and ^IcGill), Emeritus Professor of 

 Physics at the University of Pennsylvania, Commander of the French Legion 

 of Honour, Past President of the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science and of the American Chemical Society, Member of the National 

 Academy of Science ; celebrated for his various Scientific Papers and Reports, 

 the Author of an original Text-Book on Physics, and long one of the Editors 

 of the ' American Journal of Science.' 



He was elected an Honorary Member on the occasion of the Commemora- 

 tion of the Centenary of the Royal Institution. 



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

 tution, the expression of their most sincere sympathy with Mrs. Barker and 

 the family in their bereavement. 



The Presents received since tlie last Meeting were laid on the 

 table, and the thanks of the Members returned for the same, viz. : — 



FEOM 



The Secretary of State for India — Report of the Director of Kodaikunal and 



Madras Observatories for 1909. 4to. 1910. 

 Kodaikunal Observatory Bulletin, No. 19. 4to. 1910. 

 British. Museum Trustees — Catalogue of Hindustani Books : Supplement. 4to. 



1909. 

 Accademia dei Lincei, Reale, Boma — Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Mathematiche 



e Naturali. Atti, Serie Quinta: Rendiconti. Vol. XIX. 1° Semestre, 



Fasc. 8. 8vo. 1910. 

 Allegheny Observatory — Publications, Vol. I. No. 22. 4to. 1910. 

 American Geographical Society — Bulletin, Vol. XLII. No. 4. 8vo. 1910. 

 Astro7iomical Society, Royal — Monthly Notices, Vol. LXX. No. 6. 8vo. 1910. 

 Automobile Club — Journal for May, 1910. 8vo. 

 Bankers, Institute o/— Journal, Vol. XXXI. Part 6. 8vo. 1910. 

 Belgium, Royal Academy of Sciences — Bulletin, 1910, Nos. 3-4. 8vo. 

 Berlin, Royal Academy of Sciences — Sitzungsberichte, 1910, Nos. 1-23. 8vo. 

 Boston Public Library — Fifty- eighth Annual Report, 1909-10. 8vo. 

 British Architects, Royal Institute of — Journal, Third Series, Vol. XVII. No. 14. 



4to. 1910. 

 British Astronomical Association —Journal, Vol. XX. No. 7. 8vo. 1910. 

 Buenos Aires — Monthly Bulletin of Municipal Statistics for Feb. 1910. 4to. 

 Carnegie Institution, Mount Wilson Solar Observatory — Contributions, No. 45. 



8vo. 1910. 

 Chemical Bidustry, Society o/— Journal, Vol. XXIX. Nos. 9-10. 8vo. 1910. 



