412 General Monthly Meeting. [Dec. 7, 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 

 Monday, December 7, 1903. 



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



Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Andrew Carnegie, Ksq. LL.D. 

 John Sadler Curgenven, Esq. Al.R.C.S. L.R.C.P. 

 J. Emerson Reynolds, M.D. Sc.D. F.R.S. 

 Rudolf Wissmann, Esq. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Chairman announced the decease, on the 80th of November, 

 of Sir Frederick Bramwell, Bart., and the following letter from His 

 Grace the President was read : — 



Alnwick Castle, 2nd Deceviber,,ld03. 

 My Dear Sir William Crookes — 



It is with the utmost regret that I find an important engagement in New- 

 castle will unavoidably prevent my attending the INIonthly Meeting of the 

 Managers of the Royal Institution next Monday, and the subsequent General 

 Meeting of Members. I am especially grieved, because it would have been a 

 melancholy satisfaction to have had the opportunity of expressing my deep sense 

 of the loss the Institution has sustained in the death of our respected and valued 

 friend, Sir Frederick Bramwell. 



His great talents and high professional reputation are known to all the world 

 — the deep interest he always displayed in the work of the Royal Institution, 

 and the conspicuous services he rendered it, cannot, I think, fail to he within the 

 cognisance of every member. But it is only those who have taken part as his 

 colleagues in the management, and who have had the privilege of enjoying his 

 personal friendship, who can be fully aware of his genial kindliness, his wise 

 counsels, and his indefatigable energy. 



I am glad to think that we were able to do something in his life-time to 

 convey to him a sense of our esteem when we added his bust to our collection. 

 To us it is a reminder of a loss which will long be felt. 



Believe me, Yours very truly, 



(Signed) Northumberland. 



The Chairman said : In the absence of His Grace, the President, 

 it devolves upon me to submit to you the Resolution which he would 

 have pro[)06ed had he been here, and in doing so I would say that we 

 miss this afternoon a distinguished figure that was with us at our 

 last monthly meeting, and that has been familiar in this theatre for 

 seven and twenty years, for ever since Sir Frederick Bramwell joined 

 the Royal Institution in 1876 he h s taken an active interest in its 

 affairs and has been seldom absent from its meetings. 



I am sure that our members, and especially our old members, 

 during the coming session will be conscious of a void, a want, when 



