172 General Monthly Meeting [Dec. 3, 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 

 Monday, December 3, 1917. 



SiE James Cr^chtox-Bkowne, M.D. F.R.S., Treasurer 

 and Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Frederick ChamberHn, 

 Mrs. Williamson, 

 Burnett Tabrum, 

 W. B Faraday, 

 Mrs. Spencer Gollan, 

 Albert Gray, 

 Mrs. Albert Gray, 



were elected Members. 



The Chairman announced that the Managers, at their Meeting 

 held this day, had appointed Dr. Arthur Keith, M.D. F.R.S., Ful- 

 lerian Professor of Physiology. Dr. Arthur Keith is Conservator of 

 Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons, and Author of " The 

 Human Body," " The Antiquity of Man," and other well-known 

 works. 



The Hon. Secretary announced the decease of Mr. Charles 

 Hawksley, M.Inst.C.E., on November 27, 1917, Member of the 

 Royal Institution : and the following Resolution, passed by the 

 Managers at their Meeting held this day, was read and unanimously 

 adopted : — 



Resolved, That the Managers of the Royal Institution desire to record 

 their sense of the loss sustained by the Institution, and World of Science, by 

 the decease of Charles Hawksley, Past President of the Institution of Civil 

 Engineers. 



Mr. Hawksley was a Member of the Royal Institution for thirty-nine years, 

 and discharged the official duties of a Visitor, Manager and Vice-President. 

 He took a great interest in the affairs of the Institution, and was a generous 

 contributor towards the funds of the Royal Institution. 



Resolved, That the Managers desire to express, on behalf of the Members 

 of the Royal Institution, their most sincere sympathy with the family in their 

 bereavement. 



The Presexts 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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