14 General Monthly Meeting. [Feb. 6, 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, February 6, 1882. 

 George Busk, Esq. F.R.S. Treasurer and Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Sidney Biddell, Esq. M.A. 

 The Earl of Dysart, 

 Mrs. Archibald Hamilton, 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



Report from the Managers. 



The following Resolution passed by the Committee of Managers 

 at a Special Meeting held on December 16, 1881, was read and 

 adopted by the Members : — 



1. The Board of Managers of the Royal iDstitution received with great 



regret Mr. Warren De La Rue's letter of December 3, 1881, 

 addressed to Professor Tyndall, announcing that the state of his 

 health compelled him to resign the office of Honorary Secretary to 

 the Royal Institution. 



2. The Managers fully ajipreciated the considerate offer made by 



Mr. De La Rue to continue iu the post of Honorary Secretary for 

 some time longer, if such a course were deemed desirable for the 

 advantage of the Institution; but they believed it to be their duty 

 to secure for Mr. De La Rue the immediate release from the cares of 

 office which seemed indispensable. 



3. The Managers trust that Mr. De La Rue may be enabled, after due 



rest and medical treatment, to resume those scientific pursuits in 

 which so much of his life has been spent, and to the prosecution of 

 which by others so much generous assistance has always been 

 extended by him. 



4. The Managers cannot bid farewell to Mr. De La Rue, as Honorary 



Secretary to the Royal Institution, without tendering to him their 

 warmest thanks for the ability, zeal, and liberality with which he 

 has aided the Royal Institution while filling that important office. 



5. The devotion of Mr. De La Rue's time and attention to the interests 



of the Institution will always be remembered with gratitude in 

 connection with the services of other distinguished men, many of 

 whose names, like his own, belong to the history of science — a 

 history to which the work done in the Royal Institution has made 

 such signal contributions. 



William Bowman, Esq. LL.D. F.R.S. was elected Honorary 

 Secretary, and Warren De La Rue, Esq. M.A. D.C.L. F.R.S. was 

 elected Manager. 



Thirteen Candidates for Membership were proposed for election. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

 table, and the thanks of the Members returned for the same, viz. : — 



FROM 



The Governor General of India — Geological Survey of India : 

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