191;-'.] General Monthly Meeting 0(18 



Proclamations and Broadsides, and in 1910 he published a complete catalogue 

 of the Crawford Library in four volumes. 



The Managers desire to of!er, on behalf of the Members of the Royal Insti- 

 tution, their most sincere sympathy with Lady Crawford and 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 in the decease of George 

 Matthey, Esq., Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Chemical Society, 

 Associate Institution of Civil Engineers, Legion of Honour, Austrian Order of 

 Francis Joseph, Prussian Great Gold Medal for Arts and Sciences, and some 

 time Prime Warden of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. 



^Ir. George ^Matthey was one of the oldest Members of the Royal Institu- 

 tion, having been elected fifty-six years ago. He repeatedly occupied the 

 position of Vice-President and Manager. His metallurgical researches are 

 well known, and have been of great importance in the use and development of 

 platinum. He discovered a new method of obtaining the refined metal. In 

 conjunction with Professor St. Clair Deville, Membre de I'lnstitut, and a 

 Member of the International Metric Commission at Paris, he introduced into 

 this country the preparation of iridio-platinum by means of the oxyhydrogen 

 furnace, and this metal was subsequently used by the French Government for 

 their standard metre. 



Mr. George Matthey always took the deepest interest in the welfare of the 

 Royal Institution, showing his generous and practical interest in the progress 

 of science by his frequent contributions to the research fund, and being largely 

 instrumental in inducing the Goldsmiths' Company to grant a donation when 

 the fund required it in the early days of Low Temperature Research. He was 

 a frequent attendant at the Lectures and Friday Evening ^Meetings. 



The INIanagers desire to express, on behalf of the INIembers of the Royal 

 Institution, their deepest sympathy with Mrs. Matthey and the family in their 

 bereavement. 



Resolved, That the Managers of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 

 desire to record their sense of the loss sustained by the Royal Institution in 

 the decease of Sir William Henry White, K.C.B. LL.D. Sc.D., Fellow of the 

 Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, late President of the Institution of 

 Civil Engineers, and of the Institution of ^Mechanical Engineers. He held the 

 position of Director of Naval Construction for seventeen years. 



Sir William Henry White was celebrated for many notable achievements in 

 naval architecture, and was author of a " Manual of Naval Architecture " and 

 a " Treatise on Shipbuilding," besides numerous Memoirs on these subjects. 

 He was awarded the John Fritz jMedal in 1911 by a special Board of the 

 leading American Engineering Societies. He was President Elect for the 

 British Association in 1913. 



Sir William Henry White was a Member of the Royal Institution for 

 twenty-two years, and some time a Manager. He delivered two Friday 

 Evening Discourses at the Royal Institution, on March 9, 1894, on " The 

 Making of the Modern Fleet," and on June 9, 1905, on " Submarine Naviga- 

 tion," and a course of Afternoon Lectures in 1907 on " The Contest between 

 Guns and Armour." 



The Managers desire, on behalf of the Members of the Royal Institution, 

 to convey to Lady White and the faniily the expression of their deepest 

 sympathy in their bereavement. 



The following After-Easter Lecture Arrangements were an- 

 nounced : — 



Arthur Smith Woodward, Esq., LL.D. F.R.S., Keeper of the Geological 

 Department, British Museum. Two Lectures on Recent Discoveries op 

 Early Man. On Tuesdays, April 1, 8. 



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