1899.] General Monthly Meeting. 45 



GENEKAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, February 6, 1899. 



Sir James Crichton-Browne, M.D. LL.D. F.R.S., Treasurer and 

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



George C. Cathcart, Esq. M.A. M.B. CM. 



Hod. Alan de Tatton Egerton, M.P. 



Sir Francis Henry Evans, K.C.M.G. M.P. 



John George Glover, Esq. 



John William Gordon, Esq. 



John Gretton, Esq. 



John Gretton, Esq., Jun. M.P. 



Charles Edward Groves, Esq. F.R.S. F.C.S. 



Alexander Ritchie, Esq. J. P. 



were elected Members of the Eoyal Institution. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned for the follow- 

 ing Donation to the Fund for the Promotion of Experimental Research 

 at Low Temperatures : — 



Professor Dewar .. .. .. £100 



Professor Frank Clowes .. .. £10 10s. 



The following resolution was proposed from the chair by Sir 

 James Crichton-Browne, M.D. F.R.S. the Treasurer, seconded by 

 Sir Frederick Bramwell, Bart. F.bi.S. the Honorary Secretary, and 

 unanimously adopted : — 



" The Members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain in General Meeting 

 assembled desire to express to his Grace the Duke of Northumberland their 

 sympathy with him and his family in the loss which they, as well as the Royal 

 Institution and the country at large, have sustained by the death of his father, 

 the late Duke. They desire also to record their grateful sense of the invaluable 

 services rendered to the Royal Institution by the late Duke during his member- 

 ship of 48 years' duration ; during seven terms of office as Visitor and Manager, 

 and as President for 26 years ; by his active and unfailing interest in its affairs, 

 and in the progress of science, which it is its object to promote; by his generous 

 benefactions to its funds; aud by the true nobility of his character, which has 

 lent distinction to its proceedings during an eventful period of its history." 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to C. E. 

 Melchers, Esq. for his donation of £50 for alterations in the Lecture 

 Theatre. 



