1910] General Monthhj Meeting. 917 



G^ENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, December 5, 1910. 



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

 and Yice-President, in the Chair. 



Harry Rudston-Read, Esq. 

 William Allan Tanner, Esq. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



Professor Alexander Graham Bell, M.D. LL.D. Ph.D. Officer 



of the Legion of Honour, Washington, U.S.A., 

 Professor Petr Nikolajewitsch Lebedew, Ph.D. Moscow, 

 Professor Jules Henri Poincare, D.Sc. Membre de I'lnstitut, 



Hon. F.R.S., Paris, 

 Professor Emanuele Paterno, Marchesi di Sessa, Rome, 

 Professor Emil Gabriel Warburg, Ph.D., Berlin, 



were elected Honorary Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to Hugo 

 W. Miiller, Esq., Ph.D. LL.D. D.Sc. F.R.S. M.R.I., for his Dona- 

 tion of £1000 to the Fund for the Promotion of Experimental 

 Research at Low Temperatures. 



The following Lecture Arrangements were announced : — 



Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, B.A. LL.D. D.Sc. F.R.S. M.R.L, 

 Principal of the City and Guilds Technical College, Finsbury. Six Lectures 

 (adapted to a Juvenile Auditory) on Sound : Musical and Non-Musical : 

 a Course of Experimental Acoustics. On Thursday, Dec. 29, Dec. 31, 1910 ; 

 Jan. 3, 5, 7, 10, 1911. 



Professor Frederick W. Mott, M.D. F.R.S. F.R.C.P., FuUerian Pro- 

 fessor of Physiology, Royal Institution, etc. Six Lectures on Heredity. Oa 

 Tuesdays, Jan. 17, 24, 31, Feb. 7, 14, 21. 



A. E. H. TuTTON, Esq., M.A. D.Sc. F.R.S. Three Lectures on Crystal- 

 line Structure: Mineral, Chemical, and Liquid. {With Illustrations.) 

 On Tuesdays, Feb. 28, March 7, 14. 



M. AuREL Stein, Esq., CLE. Ph.D. D.Lit. D.Sc. Three Lectures on 

 Explorations of Ancient Desert Sites in Central Asia. On Tuesdays, 

 March 21, 28, April 4. 



The Astronomer Royal, Frank Watson Dyson, Esq., M.A. F.R.S. 

 F.R.A.S. Three Lectures on Recent Progress in Astronomy. On Thurs- 

 days, Jan. 19, 26, Feb. 2. 



P. Chalmers Mitchell, Esq., M.A. D.Sc. LL.D. F.R.S., Secretary of the 

 Zoological Society of London. Three Lectures on Problems of Animals in 

 GiLPTiviTY. On Thursdays, Feb. 9, 16, 23. 



