194 General Monthly Meeting. [June 5, 



free of the Institution for life, and the third class, at 2 guineas, to have the entree 

 for one year. But the tickets of the second and third classes not to be transferable. 



One very interesting part of the Institution will be a grand collection of 

 useful machines — all at work, and a collection of models of useful mechanical 

 Inventions, with Workshops for giving instructions to Tradesmen and Manu- 

 facturers ; and a magnificent Laboratory for making Chemical and Philosophical 

 Experiments. 



I shall be a subscriber of the first class, and I am not sure but I shall make 

 my daughters subscribe also. 



Tell me what you think of this scheme. 



I am ever, as you well know, 

 For Yours most faithfully. 



Lady Palmerston. (Signed) Kumford. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to Mr. Hugh 

 Spottiswoode for his valuable gift to the Royal Institution of his 

 father's collection of physical apparatus. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to Mrs. Wigan 

 for her donation of £10 10s. and to Mr. Thomas A. Rogers for his 

 donation of £10 10s. to the Fund for the Promotion of Experimental 

 Eesearch at Low Temperatures. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

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



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The Secretary of State for India — Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, 



Vol. XXVIII. Part 1. 8vo. 1898. 

 The Meteorological Office — Meteorological Observations at Stations of the Second 



Order for 1895. 4 to. 1899. 

 Accademia dei Lincei, Eeale, Roma — Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e 



Naturali. Atti, Serie Quinta: Kendiconti. 1° Semestre, Vol. VIII. Fasc. 



8, 9. 8vo. 1899. 

 Classe di Scienze Morali, etc. Vol. VIII. Fasc. 1, 2. 8vo. 1899. 

 American Geographical Society — Bulletin, Vol. XXXI. No. 2. 8vo. 1899. 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal — Journal, Vol. LXVII. Part 1, No. 4, Part 3, No. 2. 



8vo. 1898-99. 

 Proceedings, 1898, Nos. 9-11 ; 1899, Nos. 1-3. 8vo. 

 The Kacniira^abdamrta, Part 2. 8vo. 1899. 

 Astronomical Society, Royal — Monthly Notices, Vol. LIX. No. 7. 8vo. 1899. 

 Bankers, Institute of— Journal, Vol. XX. Part 5. 8vo. 1899. 

 Berlin, Roijal Prussian Academy of Sciences — Sitzungsberichte, 1899, Nos. 1-22. 



8vo. 

 British Architects, Royal Institute of — Journal, 3rd Series, Vol. VI. No. 13. 4to. 



1899. 

 British Astronomical Association — Memoirs, Vol. VIII. Part 1. 8vo. 1899. 



Journal, Vol. IX. No. 6. 8vo. 1899. 

 Camera Club— Journal for May, 1899. 8vo. 



Canadian Institute — Proceedings, Vol. II. Part 1, No. 7. 8vo. 1899. 

 Chemical Industry, Society of — Journal, Vol. XVIII. No. 4. 8vo. 1899. 

 Chemical Society — Journal for May, 1899, and Supplementary Number, 1898. 



8vo. 

 Proceedings, Nos. 209. 210. 8vo. 1899. 

 Chicago, John Crerar Library — Report for 1898. 8vo. 1899. 

 Churchill, Messrs. J. & A. — A Treatise on Practical Chemistry and Qualitative 



Analysis. By F. Clowes. 7th ed. 8vo. 1899. 



