568 General Muntltly Meeting. [Nov. 4. 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, November 4, 1912. 



Swi James Crichton-Browne, J.P. M.D. LL.D. D.Sc. F.R.S.. 

 Treasurer and Yice-President, in the Chair. 



Dr. J. H. McBride, 

 Miss Jane Worth, 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Honorary Secretary reported the decease of Professor Henri 

 Poincare on July 17, l'J12, and the following Resolution, passed by 

 the Managers at their Meeting held this day, was unanimously 

 adopted :■ — 



Resolved, That the Managers of the Royal lustitution desire io record (at 

 this their first Meeting since his death) their sense of the loss sustained by the 

 Institution and the world of science in the decease of Professor Henri Poincare, 

 D.Sc. (Paris and Oxford), Membre de TAcademie Fran(;5aise, et de I'Academie 

 des Sciences, Membre du Bureau des Longitudes, Professeur Honoraire a la 

 Faculty des Sciences, Professeur Honoraire a I'Ecole Polytechnique, Com- 

 mandeur de la Legion d'Honneur, Foreign Member of the Royal Society of 

 London, and an Honorary Member of the Royal lustitution. 



Professor Poincar6 evolved the series of naathematical functions known as 

 the Fuchsian Functions ; he made highly original and important contributions 

 to the dynamical theory of tides, on the figures of equilibrium of Rotating 

 Masses of Liquids, and the theory of the motions of planets and satellites He 

 was the author of elaborate treatises on various departments of Physics, Mathe- 

 matics and Philosophy, among which are the following : — " Cours de Physique 

 Mathematique," " Les Methodes de la Mecanique Celeste," " Thermodyna- 

 mique," " Electricity et Optique," " La Science et L'Hypoth^se," " La Valeur 

 de la Science," and " Science et Mcthode." 



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

 Institution, their most sincere sympathy with Madame Poincar6 and the family 

 in their bereavement. 



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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8vo. 1912. 

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By H. L. Crostbwait. Svo. 1912. 

 Secretary of State for India — Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa : Bulletin, 



No. 30. Svo. 1912. 

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