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GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, February 2, 1885. 



The Hon. Sir William R. Grove, M.A. D.C.L. F.R.S. Manager and 

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Arthur Edward Durham, Esq. F.R.C.S. 

 James Love, Esq. F.E.A.S. F.G.S. F.Z.S. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



With reference to the report of the Managers read at the previous 

 meeting, a Resolution was unanimously passed authorizing the Sale 

 of a part of the New Three per Cent. Consols belonging to and 

 standing in the name of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, suffi- 

 cient to raise a sum of not exceeding £2000 cash. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned for the 

 following donations to the Fund for the Promotion of Experimental 

 Research : — 



Warren de la Rue, Esq £100 



Sir Frederick Bram well . . . . £50 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to Miss Julia 

 Moore, for her present, on behalf of her sister, the late Miss Harriet 

 Jane Moore, M.R.L, of a fine copy of Dante's 'Divina Commedia,' 

 printed in 1564 ; and also two Water-Colour Drawings of the Old 

 Laboratory of the Royal Institution, including Portraits of Professor 

 Faraday, and his Assistant, Mr. Anderson, painted by Miss 

 H. J. Moore in 1852. 



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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Indica : Series X. Vol. III. Part 5 ; Series XIV. Vol. I. Part 3, Fasc. 4. 4to. 



1884. 

 Records, Vol. XVII. Part 4. 8vo. 1884. 

 The Secretarij of State for India— Lists of the Antiquarian Remains in Madras. 



By R. Sewell. Vol. II. 4to. 1884. 

 Accademia del Lincei, Reale, Roma — Atti, Serie Terza : Transunti. Vol. VIII. 



Fasc. 16. 4to. 1884. 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia — Proceedings, 1884, Part 2. 8vo. 

 Amsterdam Royal Society of Zoology — Bijdrageu tot de Dierkuude. Afl. 10. 4to. 



1884. 

 Tijdschrift voor de Dierkuude. Jaar. 5, Afl. I. and II. 8vo. 1884. 



