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General Monthly Meeting. [June 11, 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, June 11, 1900. 



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

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Charles E. Baxter, Esq. 



Cyril Coward, Esq. 



August Dupre, Esq. Ph.D. F.R.S. 



Lewis Vernon Harcourt, Esq. 



W. C. Prescott, Esq. 



Mrs. Mary F. Thorne, 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



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

 Swithinbank, for his donation of £50 to the Fund for the Promotion 

 of Experimental Research at Low Temperatures. 



The Managers reported, that at their Meeting held this day the 

 following Resolution was unanimously agreed to : — 



"The Managers of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, on the occasion of 

 the retirement of Sir Frederick Bramwell from the office of Honorary Secretary, 

 desire to place on permanent record an expression of their high appreciation of 

 the admirable way in which he has performed the duties of that office and of his 

 signal services to the Institution generally. 



" Elected a Member of the Ro\al Institution in 1876, Sir Frederick Bramwell 

 has since then delivered seven Friday Evening Discourses on subjects cognate to 

 that branch of applied science with the progre.-s of which in this country, during 

 the Victorian Era, his name must ever remain honourably associated. 



" Having joined the Board of Managers in 187 ( J, he was induced in 18S5, not- 

 withstanding professional engagements of the most onerous and responsible 

 character, to undertake the additional burden of the duties of Honorary Secretary 

 to the Institution. For fifteen years these duties nave absorbed no inconsiderable 

 proportion of his time, and have been discharged with incomparable energy, 

 business ability and courtesy. Himself a generous patron of the Institution, and 

 foremost to support every project for its advaniage, he has been able to suggest 

 improvements in the administration of its property which have added to its 

 material resume s. Mainly concerned in the arrangement of the courses of 

 Lectures and Friday Evening Discourses, he has succeeded with no small 

 expenditure of labour in maintaining these at a high level of educational value 

 and in making them attractive and popular and representative of every modern 

 advancement in the arts and sciences. While extending the usefulness of the 

 Institution in every direction, a d introducing into it many new members, he has 

 by his genial personality done much to promote smoothness and harmony of 

 working in its several departments. 



"The Managers feel that the Royal Institution has been singularly fortunate 

 in having so long enjoyed the services of Sir Frederick Bramwell in the capacity 



