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year in a popular work entitled, " The Tides and Kindred Phenomena in the 

 Solar System," and a third edition was published in 1910. 



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

 Institution, the expression of their most sincere sympathy with Lady Darwin 

 and the family in their bereavement. 



The Chairman read the following Letters which had been received 

 from the Honorary Members elected at the General Meeting on 

 December 2, 1912 :— 



[Translation.'] 

 INSTITUT DE FRANCE 



ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES, PaEIS, 



December 16, 1912. 

 Sib, 



I have received your letter in which you kindly inform me that the 

 Members of the Royal Institution have been good enough to elect me an 

 Honorary Member of the Royal Institution. 



I do not wish to delay in asking you to address to them my very sincere 

 and very respectful thanks. I am particularly sensible of this new mark of 

 sympathy and esteem coming to me from your country. 



Please accept, Sir, the assurance of my sentiments and highest esteem. 

 (Signed) G. DARBOUX, 



Perpetual Secretary of the Academy of Sciences. 



P.S. — As soon as I receive the diploma which you inform me you are 

 sending, I will not omit to apprize you of its arrival. I shall be particularly 

 obliged if you will transmit my thanks to His Grace the Duke of Northum- 

 berland. 



Meean, 



January 6, 1913. 

 Deae Sie, 



Please accept my best thanks for the news you were kind enough 

 to give me, that I have been elected an Honorary Member of the Royal 

 Institution. 



The Diploma itself now likewise having reached me, I beg you kindly to 

 present to your famous Institution the expression of my respectful thanks for 

 the great honour shown me by this election. 



Yours most respectfully, 



G. MITTAG-LEPFLER. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

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



The Secretary of State for India — Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture : 

 Botanical Series, Vol. V. No. 1. Entomological Series, Vol. IV. No 4 

 8vo. 1912. 

 Geological Survey : Records, Vol. XLII. Part 3. 8vo. 1912. 

 Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa : Bulletin Nos. 28-29. 8vo. 1912. 

 Accademia dci Lined, Reale, Roma— Atti, Serie Quinta : Rendiconti. Classe 

 di Scienze Fisiche, Mathematiche e Naturali. Vol. XXI. 2° Semestre 

 Fasc. 9-12. Vol. XXII. Fasc. 1. 8vo. 1912-13. 



