30 General Monthly Meeting. [March 6, 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, March G, 1882. 



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



Walter H. Coffin, Esq. F.L.S. F.C.S. 



Andrew Ainslie Common, Esq. F.E.A.S. 



Duncan Darroch, Esq. 



Captain Montagu Dettmar, 



Francis Y. Edgeworth, Esq. M.A. 



Mrs. John Macnaught, 



Vice- Admiral Frederick Augustus Maxse, 



M. de Meritens, 



Wilson Noble, Esq. M.A. 



George William Stevens, Esq. 



Frederick Purdy, Esq. F.S.S. 



Frederick Kamadge, Esq. 



Mrs. George J. Eomanes, 



were elected Members of the Eoyal Institution. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to M. Janssen 

 for his Photographs of the Sun. 



The Chairman reported that he had received the following Letter 

 from Mr. Warren De La Rue : — 



" 73, Portland Place, W. 

 « Dear Mr. Busk, February 7, 1882. 



" I am deeply sensible of the indulgent appreciation of my services as 

 Secretary of the Royal Institution, expressed in the Resolution of the Committee 

 of Managers on December 16th, 1881, and adopted by the General Meeting of 

 Members yesterday. 



" The kind and sympathetic feeling which pervades the elegantly expressed 

 document, in which the sentiments of the Managers are embodied, is most 

 gratifying to me and my family. 



" On my part I can assure you that no post I have ever held has been pro- 

 ductive of so much satisfaction and pleasure as that which I most reluctantly 

 resigned on account of failing health. 



" To the Royal Institution I owe a debt of deep gratitude for the help I have 

 received in and the impulse it has given to my scientific work, from tlie time, now 

 far distant, when Faraday first conferred on me the boon of a Friday Evening 

 card. 



" My interest in the Royal Institution will never cease. 



" Yours sincerelv, 



"Warren De La Rue." 



