1917] General Monthly Meeting 27 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, March 5, 1917. 



Sir James Crichton-Browne, J.P. M.D. LL.D. D.Sc. F.R.S., 

 Treasurer and Vice-President, in the Chair. 



M. Sevmore Branfoot, 

 Mrs. G. Gascoigne, 

 Mrs. Algernon Mansel, 

 Mrs. Reginald F. Yorke, 



were elected Members. 



The Chairman read the following letter, which had been received 

 from the Honorary Member elected at the General Meeting on 

 December 4, 1916 : — 



Via in Lucina, 17, Roma. 



February 2, 1917. 



Your Geace and Much Honoured President, 



I have received the Diploma signed by you, notifying my election as 

 an Honorary Member of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. 



I am exceedingly grateful at the honour conferred on me, and beg you to 

 ofier my best thanks to my new colleagues who unanimously elected me. I 

 appreciated in its full extent this mark of distinction. 



Believe me, honoured Sir, 



Yours very faithfully, 

 (Signed) VITO VOLTERRA. 



To His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, K.G. P.C. F.R.S., 

 President of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

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



FROM 



Accademia dei Lincei, Eeale, Boma — Rendiconti, Classe di Scienze Fisiche, 

 Mathematiche e Naturali. Serie Quinta, Vol. XXVI., 1° Semestre, 

 Fasc. 1. 8vo. 1917. 



American Chemical Society — Journal for Feb. 1917. 8vo. 



Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry for Feb. 1917. 8vo. 



American Geographical Society — Geographical Review for Jan. 1917. Svo. 



American Journal of Physiology — Vol. XLII. No. 3. Svo. 1917. 



