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GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, April 7, I'.tlO. 



Sir James Crichtox-Browxe, J. P. M.D. LL.D. D.Sc. F.R.S., 

 Treasurer and Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Miss A. Campbell, 



C. B. D. Campbell, 



Mrs. E. H. Campbell, 



J. D. Campbell, 



R. G. Campbell, 



Mrs. Ernest Davies, 



Miss Helen Mary Douglas, 



George Keith Buller Elphinstone, 



John William Evans, LL.B. D.Sc. 



Charles Worthington Hawksley, 



Captain Arthur John HoUick, 



Rt. Hon. Lord Leigh, M.A. 



Miss Irene Henrietta Mond, 



Robert Andrew Yule, 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Chairman announced the decease, on April 2, of Sir James 

 Mackenzie Davidson, and the following Resolution passed by the 

 Managers at their Meeting held this day was unanimously adopted : — 



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

 their sense of the great loss sustained by the Institution by the death of 

 Sir James Mackenzie Davidson, M.B. C.B. 



Sir James Mackenzie Davidson was a Member of the Royal Institution for 

 twenty-two years, and held Office both as Manager and as Visitor, and at the 

 time of his death was a Member of the Managerial Body. 



He was the author of many important Papers on Ophthalmology, and 

 devoted much attention to X-Rays and their application to Medical Treat- 

 ment. He invented the precise method of localizing bullets and other foreign 

 substances in the body by their means, which has proved of such signal 

 service in the present War. 



Sir James Mackenzie Davidson gave three Friday Evenings on the following 

 subjects, viz. ; — 



1. X-Rays and Localization (1902). 



2. Vital Efiects of Radium and other Rays (1912). 



3. Electrical Methods in Surgical Advance (1916). 



On behalf of the Members, the Managers desire to express their deep 

 sympathy with Lady Mackenzie Davidson and the family in their bereavement. 



