136 General Monfhhj lleetin//. [April 3, 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, April o, 11)11. 



His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, K.G. D.C.L. F.R.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



James Devonshire, Esq., M.Inst.C.E. 

 George Herbert Griffin, Esq. 

 William Elliot Lawson Johnston, Esq. 

 Mrs. C. Guy Pym, 

 Albert Edwin Reed, Esq., J.P. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Honorary Secretary announced the decease of Professor Jacob 

 Henry Van 't Hoff, on March 1, 1911, and the foUown'ng Resolution 

 passed by the Managers at their Meeting held this day was unani- 

 mously adopted : — 



Resolved, That the Managers of the Royal Institution desire to record their 

 sense of the loss sustained by the Institution and the Scientific World in the 

 decease of Geheimer Regierungs Rath Professor Jacob Henry Van 't Hoff, 

 Ph.D. D.Sc.(Vict.), Hon.F.R.S. Hon.F.C.S., Corresponding Member of the 

 Academy of Sciences, Paris, Member of the Royal Prussian Academy of 

 Sciences, Berlin, Member of the Prussian Ordre pour le Merite, a Nobel 

 Laureate ; late Professor of Chemistry in the University of Amsterdam and 

 Professor of Chemistry in the University of Berlin. 



Professor Van 't Hoff was one of the Founders of the Science of Stereo- 

 Chemistry, the author of epoch-making works entitled " Stereo-Chemistry," 

 " Chemical Dynamics," " Arrangement of Atoms in Space," " Theoretical and 

 Physical Chemistry," " Physical Chemistry in the Service of the Sciences," 

 and " Chemistry in Space." 



Professor Van 't Hoff delivered at the Royal Institution the Raoult Memo- 

 rial Lecture of the Chemical Society in 1902. He was elected an Honorary 

 Member of the Royal Institution in 1906. 



The Managers desire to offer, on behalf of the Members of the Royal Insti- 

 tution, the expression of their most sincere sympathy with the family in their 

 bereavement. 



The Presbnts received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

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



FEOM 



The Secretary of State for India — Report on Progress of Agriculture in India, 



1909-10. 8vo. 1911. 

 Agricultural Journal of India, Vol. VI. Part 1. 8vo. 1911. 

 Accademia dei Lincei, Reale, Roma — Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Mathematiche 



e Naturali. Atti, Serie Quinta : Rendiconti. Vol. XX. 1° Semestre, Fasc. 4. 



8vo. 1911. 



