1911] General Monthly MppJing. 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, June 12, 1911. 



His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, K.G. P.f-. D.C.L. 

 LL.D. F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Miss A. Carthew, 



Lieut. -Colonel Alfred Western Hatchell Hornsby-Drake, 

 were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Honorary Secretary announced the decease of Her Grace 

 The Duchess Dowager of Northumberland, on May 4, 1911, and the 

 following Resolution passed by the Managers at their Meeting held 

 this day was unanimously adopted : — 



Resolved, That the Managers of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 

 desire to record their sense of the loss sustained by the Institution in the 

 decease of Her Grace The Duchess Dowager of Northumberland, the widow 

 of Algernon, Fourth Duke of Northumberland, Knight of the Garter, Doctor 

 of Civil Law of the University of Oxford, Fellow of the Royal Society, a dis- 

 tinguished Patron of Science and Learning, and formerly President of the 

 Royal Institution. 



Her Grace The Duchess Dowager of Northumberland was elected a Member 

 of the Royal Institution in the year 1847, and was one of the three oldest 

 Members of the Institution, her name having appeared in the list of Members 

 for sixty-four years. Her Grace always took a deep interest in the Scientific 

 Work of the Royal Institution, and in its welfare. 



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

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

 bereavement. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to William 

 Phipson Beale, Esq., K.C. M.P. M.R.I., for his Donation of £25 

 to the Fund for the Promotion of Experimental Research at Low 

 Temperatures ; and to Donald William Charles Hood, Esq., C.V.O. 

 M.D. M.R.L, for his Present of a Portrait of Faraday. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

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



FROM 



TJie Secretary of State for India — Kodaikanal Observatory Bulletin, No. XXIII. 

 4to. 1911. 

 Report on Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories, 1910. 4to. 1911. 

 Memoirs of Department of Agriculture: Botanical Series, Vol. IV. No. 1. 



8vo. 1911. 

 Agricultural Journal of India, Vol. VI. Part 2. Svo. 1911. 

 Board of Scientific Advice, Annual Report, 1909-10. Bvo. 1911. 

 Geological Survey : Memoirs, Vol. XXXV. Part 4. Svo. 1911. 

 Records, Vol, XLI. Part 1. Svo. 1911. 



