244 General Monthly Meetiiuj. [Nov. 6, 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, November 6, 1911. 



His Geace The Duke of Northumberland, K.G. P.C. D.C.L. 

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



Miss AHce Clarendon, 



The Right Hon. Lord Congleton, 



Archibald Hall, Esq., F.C.S. F.LC. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Honorary Secretary announced the decease of the Rt. Hon. 

 Earl Cathcart, on September 2, of Professor Walter Victor Spring, on 

 July 17, of Professor Louis Joseph Troost, on September 80, and of 

 Professor G. L. Van der Mensbrugghe, on October 20, 1911, and 

 the following Resolutions passed by the Managers at their Meeting 

 held this day were read and unanimously adopted : — 



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

 sense of the loss sustained by the Institution in the decease of the Rt. Hon. 

 Earl Cathcart, D.L. J.P., late Manager of the Institution. 



Earl Cathcart was elected a Member in 1894, and a Manager in 1906, and 

 again in 1911. He took great interest in the Institution, and did all in his 

 power to promote its efficiency. He attended most regularly the Friday 

 Evening Meetings and Lectures,' and his presence will be greatly missed. 



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

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

 their bereavement. 



Besolved, 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 Professor Walter Victor Spring, Ph.D.(Luttich), Hon.P.C.S., 

 Professor of Chemistry in the University of Li4ge, and an Honorary Member 

 of the Royal Institution since 1907. 



Professor Spring had a world-wide reputation as one of the most original 

 investigators in the domain of physical chemistry. Some of his most import- 

 ant work was directed to the study of high pressures upon matter and chemical 

 combinations. 



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

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

 their bereavement. 



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 Professor Louis Joseph Troost, D.Sc. Hon. F.C.S. , Commandeur de 

 la L6gion d'Houneur, INIembre de I'lustitut, and an Houorarj' j\Iember of the 

 Royal Institution since 1907. Professor Troost was well known in the Scien- 

 tific World for his original investigations in collaboration with the late 

 Professor St. Claire Deville on the determination of vapour densities at high 

 temperatures, and the elucidation of the laws of dissociation, and was one of 



