120 General Monthly Meeting. [April 10, 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, April 10, 1899. 



His Grace the Duke op Northumberland, President, in the Chair. 



Mrs. Aston, 



Thomas Oswald Belshaw, Esq. 



Wilfred Hall, Esq. 



Mrs. F. McClean, 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



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

 ing Donations to the Fund for the Promotion of Experimental Research 

 at Low Temperatures : — 



Sir Benjamin Baker, K.C.M.G £50 



Nobel's Explosives Company . . . . £105 



His Grace the Duke of Northumberland announced that the 

 Hodgkins Medal, which was the first gold medal for scientific work 

 ever given by the Smithsonian Institution, had been awarded to 

 Professor Dewar in recognition of his discoveries in the liquefaction 

 of air. In making the announcement His Grace congratulated Pro- 

 fessor Dewar on the honour conferred on him, and also on the Royal 

 Institution, which he regarded as specially gratifying as a sympathetic 

 recognition of scientific work and discovery in this country, coming 

 from the great nation of our own blood on the other side of the 

 Atlantic. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

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



FBOM 



The Secretary of State for India — Progress Keport of the Archaeological Survey 



of Western India for the year ending June 1898. fol. 

 The Lords of the Admiralty— The Nautical Almanac for 1902. 8vo. 1899. 

 The British Museum (Natural History) — Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalsense, 

 Vol. I. Text and Plates. 8vo. 1898. 

 Catalogue of Welwitseh's African Plants, Parts 2, 3. By W. P. Hiern. 

 List of the Types and figured Specimens of Fossil Cephalopoda. 8vo. 1898. 

 The Meteorological Office — Report of the Meteorological Council to Royal Society 



for year ending March 31, 1898. Svo. 1898. 

 Accademia del Lincei, Reale, Roma — Classe di Scienze Morali, Storiche e Filo- 

 logiche: Rendiconti. Serie Quinta, Vol. VII. Fasc. 12. Svo. 1899. 

 Atti, Serie Quinta : Rendiconti. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, &c. l u Semestre, 

 Vol. VIII. Fasc. 4, 5. Svo. 1899. 



