796 General Monthly Meeting [Dec. 1, 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, December 1, 1913. 



His Geace The Duke of Northumberland, K.G. P.O. 

 D.C.L. F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Howard Marryat, Esq. 

 H. Gordon Self ridge, Esq. 



were elected Members of the Royal Listitution. 



Professor Henri Deslandres, D.Sc, Chevalier de la 

 Legion d'Honneur, Membre de I'lnstitut, (Paris). 



was elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Institution. 



The Chairman reported the decease of Sir William H. Preece, 

 K.C.B., on November 6, 1913, and the following Resolution was 

 passed unanimously, all present standing : — 



Resolved, That the Managers of the Royal Institution desire to record 

 their sense of the loss sustained by the Institution, and the world of Electrical 

 Science, in the decease of Sir William Henry Preece, K C.B. LL.D. D.Sc. 

 F.R.S. M.Inst.E.E. M.Inst.C.E., Officer of the Legion of Honour; the author 

 of many original Papers on Electrical subjects, and of the following books : 

 "The Telephone" (1889); "A Manual of Telephony" (1893); and "Tele- 

 graphy" (1905). 



Sir William Preece became a Member of the Royal Institution in 1875. 

 He occupied IManagerial Office, and favoured the Institution by delivering 

 Friday Evening Discourses on " The Application of Electricity to the Pro- 

 tection of Life on Railways " (1876) ; " The Telephone " (1878) ; " Multiple 

 Telephony" (1879); " The Telegraphic Achievements of Wheatstone " (1880); 

 " Safety Lamps in Collieries " (1888) ; and " Signalling through Space without 

 Wires" (1897). 



Sir William Preece occupied the Presidential Chair of important Engineer- 

 ing Institutions, including the Civil and Electrical Engineers; was one of 

 the pioneers in the development of Wireless Telegraphy ; and formerly 

 Electrician and Engineer- in-Chief to the General Post Office. 



The ]\Ianagers desire to offer, on behalf of the Members of the Roya 

 Institution, the expression of their sincere sympathy with the family in their 

 bereavement. 



