14 General Monthly Meeting [Feb. 2, 



The Honorary Secretary announced the decease of Sir David 

 Gill, K.C.B., on January 24, and Mr. H. F. Makins, on January 11, 

 Members of the Royal Institution, and the following Resolutions 

 passed by the Managers at their Meeting held this day, were read 

 and unanimously adopted : — 



Resolved, That the Managers of the Royal Institution desire to record their 

 sense of the loss sustained by the Institution and Astronomical Science in the 

 decease of Sir David Gill, K.C.B. LL.D. D.Sc. F.R.S. F.R.A.S., Commander 

 of the Legion of Honour, Knight of the Prussian Order pour le Merite, and 

 formerly H.M. Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope. 



Sir David Gill was a Manager in 1912-13. He delivered Friday Evening 

 Discourses on *' Recent Researches on the Distances of Fixed Stars and some 

 Future Problems in Sidereal Astronomy " (1884) ; " The Application of Photo- 

 graphy to Astronomy" (1887); "An Astronomer's Work in a Modern Observa- 

 tory " (1891) ; and " The Sidereal Universe " (1911). He gave a Christmas 

 Course of Juvenile Lectures in 1908-1909 on " Astronomy; Old and New." 



Sir David Gill rendered important services to Science by his original 

 investigations in Sidereal Astronomy ; the Geodetic Survey of Egypt, Natal 

 and Cape Colony ; and in determining the Distances of the Heavenly Bodies. 

 He was the author of many Works and Papers on Practical Astronomy and 

 Geodesy, including a " History and Description of the Cape Observatory " 

 (1913). He initiated the Photographic Survey of the Heavens known as the 

 Astrographic Chart. 



Sir David Gill was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical 

 Society in 1877 and 1908 ; the Valz Prize of the Institut de France for his 

 observations of the Transit of Venus at Ascension in 1877. He occupied the 

 Presidency of the British Association in 1907, and of the Royal Astronomical 

 Society in 1909-11. 



The Managers desire to offer, on behalf of the Members of the Royal Insti- 

 tution, the expression of their most sincere sympathy with Lady Gill in her 

 bereavement. 



Resolved, That the IManagers of the Royal Institution desire to record their 

 sense of the loss sustained by the Institution in the decease of Henry F. 

 Makins, Esq., F.R.G.S. 



Mr. Makins became a Member of the Royal Institution in 1870, and his 

 Membership extended for the exceptionally long period of forty-three years. 

 He always took a warm interest in the welfare of the Institution, and as 

 Manager and Vice-President in the years 1906-10 and 1911-12, rendered 

 valuable assistance in the transaction of business affairs of the Institution. 



The Managers desire to offer, on behalf of the Members of the Royal Insti- 

 tution, the expression of their most sincere sympathy with Mrs. Makins and 

 the family in their bereavement. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

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



FROM 



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