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GENEEAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, July 3, 1899. 



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

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Lord Kinnaird, 

 A. F. Lindemann, Esq. 

 Hon. W. J. Ward, 



were elected Members of the Eoyal Institution. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to Sir Henry 

 Thompson, Bart, for his donation of £25, and to Mr. Henry Vaughan 

 for his donation of £20, to the Fund for the Promotion of Experi- 

 mental Eesearch at Low Temperatures. 



The cordial thanks of the Members were returned to the Master 

 and Wardens of the Merchant Taylors' Company ; to the Lord Mayor 

 and Lady Mayoress ; to Dr. and Mrs. Mond ; to Dr. and Mrs. Dewar ; 

 to Professor William Odling and to the Teachers of Natural Science 

 at Oxford, for their hospitality to the Members and guests of the 

 Eoyal Institution during the recent Centenary Celebrations. The 

 Managers reported that they had received gratifying assurances from 

 their guests that the Centenary Celebrations, as a whole, were highly 

 appreciated and considered not unworthy of the past history of the 

 Eoyal Institution, and of good augury for that new century of scien- 

 tific work to which it has now to apply itself. Thus Professor Cornu, 

 on his return to Paris, reported to the French Academy of Sciences 

 as follows : — 



" La Eoyal Institution of Great Britain, fondee en 1799 par Benjamin 

 Thompson, Comte de Rumford, fetait les 5, 6 and 7 juin, le Centenaire de sa 

 foudation; S. A. R. le Prince de Galles, Vice-PatroD de l'lnstitution, a 

 gracieusement demande qu'on lui pre'sentat nos confreres et leur a remis, dans 

 l'une des seances comme'moratives, le diplome de membre honoraire de l'lnstitu- 

 tion Royale. Lord Rayleigh et M. James Dewar out rappele', dans deux 

 remarquables Commemoration Lectures, les principales decouvertes faites dans 

 les laboratoires de l'lnstitution Royale, par Thomas Youug, Sir Humphry Davy, 

 Michael Faraday, John Tyndall. 



" Les experiences les plus inte'ressantes ont ete execute'es ; en particulier, 

 celles qui se rapportent a l'interfe'rence des sons et a l'hydrogene liquide ont 

 excite un veritable enthousiasme. Nous avons pu mesurer ainsi l'iinmense 

 chemin parcouru depuis un siecle, grace aux efforts de'ploye's dans cette belle 

 Instituti m. 



"Enfmd'Universite' d'Oxford a convie tous les savants etrangers pre'sents a 

 Londres a visiter ses colleges, plus de cinq fois seculaires, qui renferment des 

 richesses d'une valeur inestimable. 



