214 General Monthly Meeting. [Nov. 3, 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, November 3, 1902. 



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

 and Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Granville Hugh Baillie, Esq. 

 W. Deane Butcher, Esq. M.R.C.S. 

 Mrs. A. K. Cox. 



Sir Archibald Campbell Lawrie. 

 (labriel James Morrison, Esq. M.Inst. C.E. 

 A. B. Tubini, Esq. 

 were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to Sir Andrew 

 Noble, Bart. K.C.B. F.R.S., for his donation of £150, and to Dr. 

 Ludwig Mond, Ph.D. F.R.8., for his donation of £200, to the Fund 

 for the Promotion of Experimental Research at Low Temperatures. 



The Honorary Secretary announced the decease of Dr. J. H. 

 Gladstone, former Professor of the Royal Institution, on October 6. 



Besolved, That the Managers of the Eoyal Institution of Great Britain desire 

 to record their sense of the loss sustained by the Institution and by the whole 

 scientific world in the decease of Dr. John Hall Gladstone, Ph.D. D.Sc. F.R.S. 

 late Fullerian Professor of Chemistry, 



He became a Member of the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1854, and 

 was elected a Visitor in 1857 and a Manager in 1860. 



His first course of Chemical Lectures in the Institution was delivered in 

 1855, and he was subsequently, in 1874, appointed Fullerian Professor of 

 Chemistry and Director of the Laboratory of the Koyal Institution. 



In addition to courses of Lectures, he gave the Christmas Lectures adapted 

 to a Juvenile Auditory in 1874-5 and again in 1876-7, and delivered many Friday 

 Evening Discourses on his important Discoveries. His last Discourse was given 

 in 1898 on *'The Metals used by the Great Nations of Antiquity." 



He published a popular and admirable Life of Michael Faraday, and has 

 made many contributions to scientific knowledge by his important researches on 

 the laws of Chemical Combination and on the relations of Chemical and Optical 

 Science. 



The Managers desire to ofier to the family the expression of the most 

 sincere sympathy with them in their bereavement. 



The Honorary Secretary announced the decease of Sir Frederick 

 Abel, Bart, on September 6. 



Ilesolved, That the Managers of the Royul Institution of Great Britain desire 

 to record their sense of the loss sustaine 1 l)y the Institution and by the whole 

 scientific world in the decease of Sir Frederick Abel, Bart. G.C.V.O. K.C.B. 

 D.C.L. LL.D. F.RS., late Vice-President of the Royal Institution of Great 

 Britain, who has rendered such signal services to Science. 



