172 General Monthly Meeting. [Dec. 4, 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, December 4, 1882. 



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



Chair. 



Aclieson George Bartley, M.D. M.A. 

 David Edward Huglies, Esq. F.R.S. 

 George Law, Esq. E.R.G.S. F.Z.S. 



were elected Members of tlie Royal Institution. 



Five Candidates for Membership were proposed for election. 



The following Lecture Arrangements were announced : — 



Professor Tyndall, D.C.L. F.R.S. M.R.I. — Six Lectures (adapted to a 

 Juvenile Auditory) on Light and the Eye; on Dec. 28 (Thursday), Dec. 30, 

 1882 ; Jan. 2, 4, 6, 9, 1883. 



William Crawford Williamson, Esq. F.R S. Professor of Botany, Owens 

 College, Manchester. — Five Lectures on The Primaeval Ancestors of Existing 

 Vegetation, and their Bearing upon the Doctrine of Evolution; on 

 Tuesdays, Jan. 16, 23, 30, and Feb. 6, 13. 



Robert Stawell Ball, Esq. LL.D. F.R.S. Andrews Professor of Astronomy 

 in the University of Dublin, and Royal Astronomer of Ireland. — Four Lectures 

 on The Supreme Discoveries in Astronomy; on Tuesdays, Feb. 20, 27, and 

 March 6, 13. 



Professor Dewar, M.A. F.R.S. M.R.I. — Nine Lectures on The Spectroscope 

 and its Applications; on Thursdays, Jan. 18 to March 15. 



R. Bosworth Smith, Esq. M.A. — Four Lectures on Episodes in the Life of 

 Lord Lawrence ; on Saturdays, Jan. 20, 27, and Feb. 3, 10. 



William H. Stone, M.D. — Three Lectures on Singing, Speaking, and 

 Stammering ; on Saturdays, Feb. 17, 24, and March 3. 



H. Heathcote Statham, Esq. — Two Lectures on Music as a Form of 

 Artistic Expression ; on Saturdays, March 10, 17. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

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



FROM 



21ie Lords of the Admiralty — Nautical Almanac for 188G. 8vo. 1882. 

 The Governor- General of India — Palseontologia Indica : Series II. Vol. II. Parts 

 1-3. fol. 1881-2. 

 Memoirs, Vol. XIX. Part 1. 8vo. 1882. 



