220 General Monthly Meeting. [Dec. 1, 



GENEEAL MONTHLY MEETING, 

 Monday, December 1, 1902. 



Sir James Crichton-Browne, M.D. LL.D. F.E.S., Treasurer and 

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Edward Divers, M.D. B.Sc, 



Miss Amy French, 



Winefred Lad}^ Howard of Glossop, 



John Herbert Whitehorn, Esq. 



were elected Members of the Eoyal Institution. 



The special thanks of the Members were returned to Mrs. 

 Hickman for her Donation of £21, and to Dr. Frank McClean, 

 F.E.S., for his Donation of £40 to the Fund for the Promotion of 

 Experimental Eesearch at Low Temperatures. 



The Honorary Secretary announced the decease of Sir William 

 Chandler Eoberts- Austen, K.C.B. on November 22. 



lie&olved. That the Managers of the Royal Institution of Great Britain desire 

 to record their sense of the loss sustained by the Institution in the decease of 

 Sir William Chandler Eoberts-Austen, K.C.B. D.C.L. D.8c. F.E.S. 



Becoming a Member of the Eoyal Institution of Great Britain in 1871, he 

 delivered many Friday Evening Discourses on his important researches on the 

 Properties of Metals and their Alloys, and he gave also an interesting Course of 

 Lectures in 1886 on " Metals as affected by small quantities of Impurity." He 

 ■was elected a Manager in 1889. 



The Managers desire to offer to I>ady Eoberts- Austen the expression of the 

 most sincere sympathy with her in her bereavement. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

 table, and the thanks of the Members returned for the same, 



Allegheny Observatory — Miscellaneous Scientific Papers, New Series, Nos. 8-9' 



8vo. 1002. 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences — Proceedings, Vol. XXXVII. Part 23. 



8vo. 1902. 

 American Geographical Society — Bulletin, Vol. XXXIV. No. 4. 8vo, 1902. 

 American ' Philosophical Society — Proceedings, Vol. XLI. No. 170. 8vo, 1902. 

 Arcademia dei Lincei, Eeale, Roma — Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e 



Naturali. Atti, Serie Quinta : Rendiconti. 2" Semestre, Vol. XI. Fasc. 8, 



9. Svo. rJU2. 

 Astronomical Society, Royal — IMonthly Notices, Vol. LXII. No. 9. 8vo. 1902. 

 Automobile Club — Journal for November, 1902. Svo. 

 Backhouse, J. II'. {the Author) — PubUcations of "West Hendon House Observatory, 



Sunderland. No. 2. 4to. 1902. 

 Ranhers, Institute o/— Journal, Vol. XXIII. Part 8. Svo. 1902. 



