General Monthly Meeting [March 3, 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, March 3, 1913. 



Sir James Ceichton-Browne, J.P. M.D. LL.D. D.Sc. F.K.S., 

 Treasurer and Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Thomas WilHam Edward Davenall, Esq. 



Philipp Moritz Deneke, Esq. 



Howard Trevelyan George, Esq., M.A. M.R.C.S. L.R.C.P. 



Hugh George Gillespie, Esq. 



William Vaux Graham, Esq., M.Inst.C.E. 



Lady Heath, 



The Hon. Marguerite de Fontaine Drever Joicey, 



John Arthur Law, Esq. 



Eev. James Marchant, 



Wyndham Anstruther MilHgan, Esq., M.D. M.A. F.P.C.S. 



David Williamson Moncur, Esq. 



The Hon. Mrs. Reginald Parker, 



Mrs. Carson Roberts, 



Miss Harriet Helen Tatlock, 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Honorary Secretary announced the decease on January 31 

 of the Right Hon. The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, on February 

 14, of George Matthey, Esq., and on February 27, of Sir William 

 Henry White ; and the following Resolutions, passed by the Managers 

 at their Meeting held -this day, were read, and unanimously 

 adopted : — 



Besolved, That the Managers of the Koyal Institution desire to record 

 their sense of the loss sustained by the Institution in the decease of the Eight 

 Hon. The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, Knight of the Thistle, Fellow of 

 the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, Fellow of the 

 Society of Antiquaries, Commander of the Legion of Honour. 



Lord Crawford was a Member of the Royal Institution for forty-four years, 

 and a Manager in 1897. 



Lord Crawford organized expeditions to Cadiz to observe the total eclipse 

 of the sun in 1870, and to Mauritius for the transit of Venus, which achieved 

 important results. He established the Dun Echt Observatory in 1871-4, the 

 magnificent equipment of which he generously handed over to the Edinburgh 

 Royal Observatory in 1888. 



He made many voyages to southern seas in his yacht, during which he 

 obtained important collections of animals and plants which he presented to 

 the Natural History Department of the British Museum, and to the Zoological 

 Society. 



He published in the Bibliotheca Lindesiana important lists of Tracts, 



