1902.] General Monthly Meeting. 149 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, May 5, 1902. 



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

 President, in the Chair. 



The following Vice-Presidents for the ensuing year were 

 announced : — 



The Rt. Hon. Lord Alverstone, G.C.M.G. LL.D. 



Sir Frederick Bramwell, Bart. D.C.L. LL.D. F.R.S. 



Donald W. C. Hood, C.V.O. M.D. 



George Matthey, Esq. F.R.S. 



Ludwig Mond, Esq. Ph.D. F.R.S. 



The Rt. Hon. Sir James Stirling, M.A. LL.D. 



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



Sir William Crookes, F.R.S. Honorary Secretary. 



Alfred Hillier, Esq. B.A. M.D. 

 Sydney Lupton, Esq. M.A. 

 Carl F. von Siemens, Esq. 

 Mrs. C. F. von Siemens, 



were elected Members of the Royal Listitution. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to Sir Thomas 

 Sanderson, G.C.B. for a Donation of £5 Ss. to the Fund for the Pro- 

 motion of Experimental Research at Low Temperatures. 



The following Resolution, passed by the Managers, was read and 

 adopted : — 



It was unanimously Besolved, That the Managers of the Koyal Institution of 

 Great Britain desire to record their sense of the deep loss sustained by the Insti- 

 tution and the whole scientific world in the decease of Professor Alfred Cornu, 

 Membre de I'lnstitut, OflBcier de la Legion d'Honneur, Professeur a I'Ecole Poly- 

 technique, D.C.L. of Oxford, Sc.D. of Cambridge, F.R.S. of London, Honorary 

 Member of the Koyal Institution of Great Britain. 



Professor Alfred Cornu as a brilliant investigator was early recognised in 

 this country. He has been invited by the Managers to deliver three Friday 

 Evening Discourses at the Royal Institution in 1875,, 1879 and 1895, on the 

 " Velocity of Light " (in French), " Etude Optique de I'Elasticite," and " Phe'no- 

 menes Physiques des Hautes Re'gions de I'Atmosphere," in which he summarised 

 his important investigations. 



He was made an Honorary Member when present on the occasion of the 

 Faraday Centenary of 1891, and attended in 1899 the celebration of the Cen- 



