1910] General Monthly Meeting 581 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, November 3, 1919. 



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

 Treasurer and Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Ralph Griffin, 



Lieut.-Col. A. E. Le Rossis^nol, 



The Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh, Sc.D. F.R.S. 



Edmund Basil Wedmore, M.fnst.E.E. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The following Resolution, passed at the General Meeting on 

 July 2, 1919, was duly confirmed : — 



Resolved, That the Bye Law Chap. XYIII. Art. 2, which 

 was suspended in 1916, be restored, and that the Friday Dis- 

 courses in future be delivered at 9 o'clock, as they had been for 

 a period of ninety years antecedent to 1916. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to : — 



Richard Pearce, Esq., M.R.I., for his Donation of £100 to 

 the Fund for the Promotion of Experimental Research at Low 

 Temperatures ; 



Robert Mond, Esq., J.P. M.A. M.R.L, for his gift of Laboratory 

 Material ; 



Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston, K.C.B., for his gift of a Drawing 

 of Sir Humphry Davy's birthplace, and a Watercolour of his statue 

 in Market Jew Street, Penzance. 



The Chairman announced the decease, on July 2, 1919, of Pro- 

 fessor A. P. N. Franchimont, an Honorary Member, 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 desire to record 

 their sense of the loss sustained by the Institution through the decease of 

 Professor Antoine Paul Nicholas Franchimont, Ph.D., Officer of the Legion of 

 Honour, Honorary FeUow of the Chemical Society, Emeritus Professor 

 of Organic Chemistry in the University of Leyden, and an Honorary Member 

 of the Royal Institution. Professor Franchimont was appointed Professor of 

 Chemistry in the University of Leyden in 1874, and during his forty years' 



