360 General Monthly Meeting. [April 2, 



GENEEAL MONTHLY MEETING, 

 Monday, April 2, 1900. 



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

 Vice-President, in the Chair, 



Eichard Tetley Glazebrook, Esq. F.E.S. 

 Edward J. Humphrey, Esq. 

 Hiram Stevens Maxim, Esq. 

 Saxton W. Armstrong Noble, Esq. 

 William F. Snell, Esq. B.A. 

 William John Tennant, 



were elected Members of the Eoyal Institution. 



The Chairman announced that the Managers had this day awarded 

 the Actonian Prize of One Hundred Guineas to Sir William Huggins, 

 K.C.B. D.C.L. F.E.S. and Lady Huggins for their work, ' An Atlas 

 of Bepresentative Stellar Spectra.' 



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

 and Mrs. F. Colenso, for their present of a portrait of their father, 

 the late Sir Edward Frankland, K.C.B. D.C.L. F.E.S., Professor of 

 Chemistry at the Eoyal Institution from 1863 to 1868. 



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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