414 General Monthly Meeting. [Dec. 7, 



His age was as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly, full of briskness 

 and usefulness. 



I need not recount Sir Frederick Bramwell's services to the Eoyal 

 Institution. These were suitably and gracefully acknowledged by 

 our President on the occasion of the presentation of Mr. Onslow 

 Ford's bust of him, which stands in the anteroom, and which will 

 keej) alive the memory of him when those who knew him have passed 

 away. In its finances, in its administration, in its scientific depart- 

 ment, he gave it invaluable assistance, and it will be long before it 

 finds a better friend. 



A typical Englishman, bold, upright, straightforward, practical, 

 an eminent engineer, enterprising yet prudent, with a mastery of 

 fio;ures and mechanical problems rarely equalled, an able scientist, 

 skilled in his own branch, but interested in all extension of natural 

 knowledge — a faithful friend, a good man, Sir Frederick Bramwell 

 was one whom we loved and revered when he was amongst us, and to 

 whom we would wish to pay all possible posthumous honour. I beg 

 to propose the following Eesolution, passed by the Managers : — 



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

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

 of Sir Frederick Bramwell, Bart., D.C.L. LL.D. F.R.S. M.Iust.C.E. 



His personality, and the signal services he rendered to the Institution by hia 

 unvarying devotion to and deep interest in its welfare and in the advancement 

 of experimental research for twenty-seven years as Manager, Hon. Secretary, 

 and Vice-President, will be long remembered. 



The Managers desire to offer Lady Bramwell and her family the expression 

 of the most sincere sympathy with them in their bereavement. 



This was unanimously adopted, all present standing. 



The Managers reported that at their Meeting held that day they 

 had elected Professor Louis Compton Miall, F.R.S., Fullerian Pro- 

 fessor of Physiology for three years (the appointment dating from 

 January 14, 1904). 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

 table, and the thanks of the Members returned for the same, viz. : — 



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