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GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 

 Monday, December 4th, 1899. 



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

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Professor Henry E. Armstrong, Ph.D. LL.D. F.R.S. 



John Herbert Bowman, Esq. 



John Storrs Brookfield, Esq. B.A. M.D. 



John B. Carrington, Esq. 



W. Brodrick Cloete, Esq. 



Lionel Leigh Smith, Esq. M.A. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The following letter from the Clerk of the Goldsmiths' Company 

 was read : — 



"Goldsmiths' Ham,, London, E.C. 

 November ISth, 1899. 



"Dear Sir, — I am directed to inform you that the attention of the Court of 

 the Goldsmiths' Company having been drawn to the fact that the Royal Institu- 

 tion of Great Britain has lately celebrated its Centenary, they have, in order to 

 mark their sense of the importance of that event, been pleased to make to the 

 Institution the further grant of £1000, for the continuation and development of 

 original research, and especially for the prosecution of further investigations of 

 the properties of matter at temperatures approaching that of the absolute zero 

 of temperature. 



" I enclose a cheque for this amount, and I shall feel obliged to you to 

 acknowledge the receipt. 



I am, dear Sir, 



Your obedient Servant, 

 The Hon. Secretary, (Signed) Walter S. Prideaux. 



The Royal Institution of Great Britain." 



The following Resolution was then passed : — 



"That the Members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, in General 

 Meeting assembled, having been informed that the Court of the Goldsmiths' 

 Company have made a donation of £1000 to the Funds of the Royal Institution 

 in commemoration of its Centenary, and in aid of the investigations which are 

 being carried on in its Laboratories into the properties of matter at low tempera- 

 tures, desire to express to the Court their profound and grateful appreciation of 

 this second munificent manifestation of their practical interest in the work of 

 the Institution — a manifestation which has been made on this occasion at once 

 reminiscent of past services to science and prescient of services yet to come." 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

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



FROM 



The Secretary of State for India — Annual Progress Report of the Archaeological 

 Survey Circle, N.W.P. and Oudh, up to June 30, 1890. fol. 



