578 General Monthly Meeting [J^^' 7^ 



Technical Adviser on Petroleum and its Applications to the Admiralty, the 

 Home Office, Government Departments, and many Public Bodies. 



He was appointed Director of Petroleum Eesearch, a branch of the Ministry 

 of Munitions, during the War. His Treatise on Petroleum, which has reached 

 its third edition, is universally recognised as a standard work on this subject. 



Sir Boverton Redwood was a Member of the Board of Visitors, 1893-4, and 

 a Member of the Royal Institution for thirty-five years. He delivered a Friday 

 Discourse in 1918 on " The Romance of Petroleum," which contained an 

 account of the vast progress made in the industrial use of petroleum since he 

 began to develop this special branch of chemical technology into one of great 

 national importance, and became one of the world's greatest authorities on 

 the subject of mineral oils. 



The ^Managers desire to express on behalf of the Members their deep 

 sympathy with Lady Redwood and the family in their bereavement. 



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

 their Minutes their sense of the loss the Institution has sustained by the 

 death of the Right Honourable Sir John Tomlinson Brunner, Bart., P.O. 

 D.L. LL.D. 



Sir John Brunner was a Member for thirty years, and was keenly interested 

 in the progress of Pure Science carried on in the Royal Institution and in the 

 Davy Faraday Research Laboratory founded by his colleague the late Dr. 

 Ludwig ]Mond. 



In association with the late Dr. Ludwig Mond, Sir John Brunner was 

 influential in introducing and developing the Ammonia Soda Process in 

 Cheshire, which has become one of the most successful and largest alkali 

 works in the world, and has rendered great service to the country in the 

 preparation of chemical products for the conduct of the War. 



Sir John Brunner fully recognised the necessity for the foundation of Local 

 Universities in England by generously endowing three Professorial Chairs in 

 the University of Liverpool, and advocated the importance of the cultivation 

 of Pure Research as the basis for all real technical advancement. 



The ^Managers desire to express on behalf of the Members their sympathy 

 with Lady Brunner and the family in their bereavement. 



The Presents 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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