576 General Monthly Meeting [July 7, 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, July 7, 1919. 



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

 Treasurer and Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mrs. A. M. Henrvson Caird, 



Percy James Ednionds, M.B. B.Sc. M.Pt.C.S. 



were elected Members. 



The Special Thanks of Members were returned to Mr. A. B. 

 Bence-Jones for his present of a Crayon Drawing by George Rich- 

 mond of Dr. H. Bence-Jones, Secretary of the Royal Institution, 

 1860-73. 



The Chairman announced the decease, on June 30, of The Right 

 Hon. Lord Rayleigh, O.M., Honorary Professor of Natural Philosophy 

 in the Royal Institution, and the following Resolution, passed by the 

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



Resolved, That the Managers of the Royal Institution place on record 

 in their Minutes their sense of the irreparable loss sustained by the Royal 

 Institution and the community of Science by the death of the Right Honour- 

 able Lord Rayleigh, Honorary Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Royal 

 Institution ; ]\Iember of the Order of Merit ; Member of His Majesty's Most 

 Honourable Privy Covincil ; Officer of the Legion of Honour ; Chancellor of 

 the University of Cambridge ; Past-President of the Royal Society of London ; 

 Foreign Associate of the French Academy of Science ; Doctor of Sciences and 

 Laws of Numerous British and Foreign Universities ; Corresponding ]Member 

 of many Foreign Academies ; Recipient of the Copley, Royal and Rumford 

 Medals of the Royal Society ; and many Medals awarded by other Societies ; 

 Nobel Laureate, etc. 



Lord Rayleigh was a Member of the Royal Institution for more than half 

 a century. He was appointed a Director of the Davy Faraday Research 

 Laboratory of the Royal Institution from its foundation. 



He succeeded Tyndall as Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Royal 

 Institution, and held this Chair for eighteen years, during which time he 

 delivered an Annual Course of Lectures along with a Friday Evening Discourse, 

 and in the historic Laboratory of the Royal Institution he conducted experi- 

 mental investigations and prepared his Lecture illustrations. 



Lord Rayleigh on his retirement from the Professorship was elected 

 Honorary Professor of Natural Philosophy, and frequently presided at the 

 Friday Evening Meeting of the INIembers, originated by Faraday. 



