1914] 



General Monthly Meeting 



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GENERAL MONTHLY MEETI 



Monday, February 2, 1014. 



His Grace The Duke of Northu3Iberlaxd, K.G. P.O. D.O.L. 

 F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Right Hon. Lord Avebury, M.A. D.L. 

 Herbert A. Humphrey, Esq., M.Inst.C.E. 

 Gerald J. Moody, Esq., D.Sc. F.O.S. F.I.O. 

 Arthur Ross, Esq., F.O.S. F.I.O. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Honorary Secretary read the following letter, received on 

 behalf of the Honorary Member who was elected at the General 

 Meeting on December 1, 1913 : — 



Observatoire d'Astronomie Physique de Paris, 



Sis PARC DE Meudon, 



Seine & Oisb. 

 13th December, 1913. 

 Sir, 



I reply to your letter of the 8th of December in place of M. Deslandres, 

 who, after an accident in which he broke his right arm, is unable to hold a pen. 

 Dr. Deslandres has received the letter of the Secretary of the Royal Institu- 

 tion, and the Diploma of Honorary Membership. 



He begs you to convey to the Members of the Society his very best thanks 

 for the great honour they have done him. 



As soon as he can hold a pen, he will have the pleasure of thanking you 

 himself by a personal letter — the President and the Secretary of the Royal 

 Institution, and also Professor Dewar. 



Please accept. Sir, the expression of my most distinguished sentiments. 



(Signed) 



CH. L AMI ABLE, 



Secretary of the Observatory. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to Lady 

 Huggins for her present of a portrait of the late Sir William Huggins, 

 and to Mr. A. B. Bence- Jones for his present of three cases, con- 

 taining two small Polariscopes and a Prism, given to his father, the 

 late Dr. H. Bence-Jones, Honorary Secretary of the Royal Institu- 

 tion, by Faraday. 



