General Monthly Meeting [Feb. 5^ 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Moil day, February 5, 1917. 



His Grace the Duke of Northujiberland, K.G. P.O. F.R.S.,. 



President, in the Chair. 



E. Arthur Ashcroft, 

 T. Radford Thomson, 

 Charles F. Cross, 

 were elected Members. 



Report from the Gommittee of Managers to the Memders. 



That the Members be informed that the IManagers, as Trustees, after having^ 

 taken the best advice, have already invested in War Stock as much as the 

 available Funds permit them to do, and that they are about to transfer to 

 the Treasury Authorities the Canadian Stock invested in the name of the 

 Institution. 



Facts for the Members. — During the years 1915-16 the following Sums- 

 have already been invested in the War Loan : — 



The Royal Institution. ^ ,,_ ^y_ 



War Loan Stock 4J % 144 2 9 



Exchequer Bonds 5 % 1000 



The Davy Faraday Research Laboratory. 



War Loan Stock 3J% 1108 4 7 



ditto 41% 527 11 6 



Exchequer Bonds 5% 500 



Total £3279 18 10 



The Managers propose further to invest from the General Funds in the 

 War Loan the Sum of £1000, and £500 from the Account of the Davy Faraday 

 Research Laboratory. 



The Managers also have deposited with the Treasury Authorities, under 

 the provision of Scheme B, £3149 5s. 9cl. Canada 4% Stock. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

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



FROM 



The Secretary of State for India — Memoirs of Department of Agriculture : 

 Chemical Series, Vol. IV. No. 6. 8vo. 1916. 

 Pusa : Agricultural Kescarch Institute, l^ulletin, Nos. 62, 63 & 67 ; Keporb 

 of Agricultural iiesearch Institute, 1915-10. 8vo. 1916. 

 Accademia dci Lincci, Roma — Kencliconti : Classe di Scienze Morali, Storiche 

 e Filologiche, Scrie Quinta, Vol. XXV. Fasc. 5-6. Svo. 1916. 

 Atti, Serie Quinta, Kendiconti : Classe de Scienze Fisiche, Mathematiche e 

 Naturali, Vol. XXV. 2" Semestre, Fasc. 8-12. 8vo. 1916. 



