1919] 



General Monthly Meeting 



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In 1896 he became Scientific Adviser to the Trinity House, thereby creating 

 a Scientific continuity in this unique position — Faraday, Tyndall and Rayleigh. 



While Professor at Cambridge he developed Practical Laboratory Training 

 in Physics for Students, and the success of this method of teaching in the 

 Cavendish Laboratory was largely conducive in founding the National Physical 

 Laboratory, which has rendered the Empire such signal and important 

 scientific services. 



It is unnecessary to attempt to detail the vast and invaluable contributions 

 Lord E-ayleigh has made to Science for more than half a century. His 

 Collected Scientific Papers have been published in five volumes by the Univer- 

 sity of Cambridge; and his Treatise on the Theory of Sound is acknowledged 

 universally as the standard work on Acoustics. 



On the occasion of the celebration of the Centenary of the Royal Institu- 

 tion he delivered a Commemorative Lecture before H.R.H. The Prince of 

 Wales (King Edward VII.), in which he reviewed the great work of his pre- 

 decessor, Thomas Young, the discoverer of the Undulatory Theory of Light. 



During his Professorship he delivered nineteen Courses of Day Lectures, 

 and the following twenty-three Friday Evening Discourses : — 



These Discourses, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Institution, 

 show a variety of mathematical and experimental fertility in research, certainly 

 for originality and profundity of learning unsurpassed by any other scientific 

 investigator during the Victorian epoch. 



On behalf of the Members of the Royal Institution the Managers desire to 

 express their deepest sympathy with Lady Rayleigh and the family in their 

 bereavement. 



The ChairDian announced the decease of Sir Boverton Redwood, 

 Bart., on June 4, and of Sir John Brunner, Bart., on July 1, and 

 the following Resolutions, passed by the Managers, were unanimously 

 adopted : — 



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

 their Minutes their sense of the great loss sustained bv the Royal Institution 

 in the death of Sir Boverton Redwood, Bart., D.Sc. F.R.S.E. F.C.E. F.I.C. 



