1901.] General Monthly Meeting. 727 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, December 2, 1901. 



Sie James Cbichton-Bbowne, M.D. LL.D. F.E.S., Treasurer and 

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Sir Thomas Barlow, Bart. M.D. F.R.S. 

 K. M. Chance, Esq. 



Sir Walter G. F. Phillimore, Bart. D.C.L. 

 Hon. C. S. Rolls 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Honorary Secretary reported that the following Address t 

 M. Berthelot, on the occasion of the Jubilee of his Researches, had 

 been presented by Dr. J. H. Gladstone on behalf of the Members, 

 and that Professor Cornu and Professor Mascart, as Honorary 

 Members, had represented the Royal Institution at the Celebration 

 in Paris on November 24. 



"To M. Makcellin Berthelot, F.R.S. Grand Officier de la Legion 

 d'Honueur, Membre de l'Institut, Secretaire perpe'tuel de l'Acade'mie des 

 Sciences, Paris ; Honorary Member of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. 



"The Members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain desire to offer you 

 their cordial congratulations on the occasion of the Jubilee of your Scientific 

 Researches, and desire to express their great appreciation of the conspicuous 

 services you have rendered in the extension and diffusion of scientific knowledge. 



"The Members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain recognise the 

 extraordinary originality of your Researches in the varied fields of Organic 

 and Biological Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Organic Synthesis, Thermo- 

 chemistry, together with your Philosophical and Alchemystical Studies, and 

 the supreme importance of labours which have produced such valuable results 

 and opened up new fields for Science. 



" The Members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain earnestly hope that 

 you will be long spared to continue such splendid researches and to further 

 enrich your generation with sterling knowledge." 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned for the fol- 

 lowing Donation to the Fund for the Promotion of Experimental 

 Research at Low Temperatures : 



Dr. Ludwig Mond, F.R.S. . . . £100 



The Peesents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

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



FROM 



The Governor-General of India, Geological Survey of India — Memoirs, Vol. 



XXX. Parts 3, 4 ; Vol. XXXI. Parts 2, 3 ; Vol. XXXII. Part 1 ; Vol. 



XXXIV. Part 1. 8vo. 1901. 

 The Meteorological Office — Meteorological Observations at Stations of the Second 



Order for 1898. 4to. 1901. 



