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GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, December 4, llUl. 



Sir James Ckighton-Browne, J. P. M.l). LL.D. D.vSc. F.R.S., 

 Treasurer and Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Miss Nora Goldsmid, 

 Hahil)iir Rahman Khan, Esq., M.A. 

 Wilham Mathias Noot, Esq., M.R.C.S. L.S.A. 

 Mrs. Middleton Robinson 

 were elected Members of the Royal Listitution. 



Professor Waldemar Christofer Brogger, Sc.D. Ph.D. Hon.F.R.S. 



(Christiania), 

 Geh. Rath. Professor Theodor Curtius, Ph.D. Hon.F.C.S.(Heidel- 



berg), 

 Professor Phihppe Auguste Guye, D.Sc.(Geneva), 

 Professor Clement Georges Lemoine, D.Sc. (Paris), 

 Geh. Regierungs-Rath Professor Heinrich Rubens, Ph.D. (Berlin) 

 were elected Honorary Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to D. J. Blaikley, 

 Esq., for presenting to the Institution, from the bequest of the late 

 Miss J. Barnard and at lier express wish, a large volume of Faraday's 

 containing Engravings, Portraits, and Letters, a companion volume 

 to one already in the possession of the Royal Institution. Mr. 

 Blaikley attended the Meeting and made a statement in regard to 

 the volume. 



The Honorary Secretary reported. That the Managers, at their 

 Meeting held this day, had appointed William Bateson, Esq. M.A. 

 F.R.S., Fullerian Professor of Physiology, for a term of three years, 

 in conformity with the Deed of Endowment, the appointment dating 

 from January 18, 1912. 



The Honorary Secretary read the following letter he had received 

 from His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, President : — 



Alnwick Castlk, 



2nd December, 1911. 



Dear Sir William, 



I am very sorry to find that I cannot attend the Meeting of the 

 INIanagers of the Royal Institution on Monday. I had hoped to have had 

 the pleasure of moving a Resolution expressing the feeling which I know is 

 entertained by the Managers that all the Members of the Royal Institution 



