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Annual Meeting. 



[May 2, 



ANNUAL MEETING, 

 Monday, May 2, 1904. 



Sir James Crichton-Beowne, M.D. LL.D. F.R.S., 



Treasurer and Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Annual Report of the Committee of Visitors for the year 

 1903, testifying to the continued prosperity and efficient management 

 of the Institution, was read and adopted, and the Report on the Davy 

 Faraday Research Laboratory of the Royal Institution, which accom- 

 panied it, was also read. 



Seventy new Members were elected in 1903. 



Sixty-two Lectures and Twenty Evening Discourses were delivered 

 in 1903. 



The Books and Pamphlets presented in 1903 amounted to about 

 229 volumes, making, with 694 volumes (including Periodicals bound) 

 purchased by the Managers, a total of 923 volumes added to the 

 Library in the year. 



Thanks were voted to the President, Treasurer, and the Honorary 

 Secretary, to the Committees of Managers and Visitors, and to the 

 Professors, for their valuable services to the Institution during the 

 past year. 



The following Gentlemen were unanimously elected as Officers 

 for the ensuing year : 



President— The Duke of Northumberland, K.G. D.C.L. F.R.S. 

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



Secretary- 



-Sir AVilliam Crookes, F.R.S. 



Managers. 



Sir William de W. Abney, K.C.B. D.C.L. 



D.Sc. F.R.S. 

 Henry E. Armstrong, Esq., Ph.D. LL.D. F.R.S. 

 Shelfoi-d Bidwell, Esq., M.A. Sc.D. LL.B. F.R.S. 

 Sir Alexander Binnie, M.Inst.C.E. 

 John H. Balfour Browne, Esq., K.C. D.L. J.P. 

 The Hon. Sir Henry Burton Buckley, M.A. 

 Sir Thomas Andros de la Rue, Bart,, M.A. 

 John Ambrose Fleming, Esq., M.A. D.Sc. F.R.S. 

 Sir Victor Horslev, M.B. B.S. F.R.S. F.K.C.S. 

 The Right Hon. Lord Kelvin, O.M. G.C.V.O. 



D.C.L. LL.D. D.Sc. F.R.S. 

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

 Sir Owen Roberts, M.A. D.C.L. F.S.A. 

 Sir Thomas Henry Sanderson, G.C.B. 



K.C.M.G. 

 Sir Felix Semon, C.V.O. M.D. F.R.C.P. 

 W illiam Hugh Spottiswoode, Esq., F.C.S. 



Visitors. 



John B. Broiin-Morison, Esq., J.P. D.L. F.S.A. 



(Scot.) 

 John Mitchell Bruce, Esq.. M.A. M.D. LL.D. 

 Frank Clowes, Esq., D.Sc. F.C.S. 

 James Mackenzie Davidson, Esq., M.B. CM. 

 Francis Fox, Esq., M.Inst.C.E. 

 William Bolger Gibbs, Esq., F.R.A.S. 

 Maures Horner, Esq., J.P. F.R.A.S. 

 Carl E. Melchers, Esq. 

 Robert Mond, Esq., M.A. F.R.S.E. F.C.S. 

 John Callander Ross, Esq. 

 The Hon. Lionel Walter Rothschild, M.P. 

 George Johnstone Stoney, Esq., M.A. D.Sc. 



F.R.S. 

 Alan Campbell Swinton, Esq., M.Inst.C.E. 

 John Jewell Vezey, Esq., F.R.M.S. 

 George Philip Willoughby, Esq., J.P. 



