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GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, February 4, 1884. 



The Duke of Noeteumberland, LL.D. D.C.L. President, 



in the Chair. 



The Earl Percy, M.P. 



The Lord Sudeley, 



The Rev. Edward Samuel Dewick, M.A. F.G.S. 



Mrs. Charles Hawksley, 



Sidney George Holland, Esq. LL.B. 



William S. Playfair, M.D. F.R.C.P. 



Augustine Robinson, Esq. 



James Thorne, Esq. 



Robert Younger, Esq. B.A. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



Sir Joseph Hooker, K. C.S.I. C.B. F.R.S. &c. was elected a Manager 

 in the room of the late Sir William Siemens, F.R.S. 



The Managers have received the following letter : — 



[Translation.) 

 Dear SiE, Beelin, \2th December, 1883, 



I acknowledge with much gratitude your kind and sympathising note of 

 the 3rd inst., as well as the Resolution passed at the Meeting of Managers of the 

 Royal Institution of Great Britain in honour of my beloved brother William, 

 whose memory will ever be dear to us. 



The recognition of my brother's great worth, so warmly expressed in this 

 Resolution, proves a real consolation to the bereaved sorrowing family of him who 

 has been so prematurely taken away, and will henceforth form for them in itself 

 a memorial of him. These tokens of grateful remembrance of services rendered, 

 shown by the learned and scientific Societies of England, and the mourning 

 honours which the cultivated classes of England, my brother's beloved adopted 

 country, have paid him since his death, afford that great country at the same 

 time a* further title to fame, since they are a fresh proof that England values and 

 honours merit without enquiring whence it originates, 



I beg you, dear Sir, to convey to the Managers of the Royal Institution the 

 heartfelt thanks of my brother's bereaved family for the Resolution sent to me. 

 With the exprtssion of my high esteem, 



I am. Sir, 



Yours faithfully. 

 To Mr. W. Bowman, I^r- Wekner Siemens. 



Hon. Sec. of the Royal Institution 

 of Great Britain, 



Albemarle Street, 



London, W. 



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