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GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, April 6, 1914. 



His Gkace The Duke of Noethuxberland, K.G. P.C. D.C.L. 

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



Miss A. R. Atkinson, 



Lady Esmonde, 



Mrs. H. J. F. Simson, 



Francis WiUiam Goodenough, Esq. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Chairman announced that the Managers, at their Meeting 

 held this day, had, in accordance with the Actonian Trust Deed, 

 awarded the Actonian Prize of One Hundred Guineas to Professor 

 Charles Scott Sherrington, M.A. M.D. D.Sc. LL.D. F.R.S., AVayne- 

 flete Professor of Physiology in the University of Oxford, for his 

 work entitled " The Integrative Action of the Nervous System." 



The following Lecture Arrangements After Easter 1914 were 

 announced : — 



Walter Wahl, Esq., Ph.D. (Helsingfors) M.R.I. Two Lectures on 

 Problems of Physical Chemistry : 1. Study of Matter at High Pres- 

 sures ; 2. Structure op Matter at Low Temperatures. (Esperimeutally 

 Illustrated.) On Tuesdays, April 21, 28. 



Professor William Bateson, M.A. D.Sc. F.R.S., Fullerian Professor of 

 Physiology, Royal Institution. Two Lectures on 1. Double Flowers ; 2. 

 The Present State of Evolutionary Theory. On Tuesdays, May 5, 12. 



Professor D'Arcy W. Thompson, C.B. D.Litt. M.A., Professor of Natural 

 History, Dundee. Two Lectures on Natural History in the Classics ; 

 1. The Natural History of the Poets : Homer, Virgil and Aristo- 

 phanes ; 2. The Natural History of Aristotle and op Pliny. On 

 Tuesdays, ]\Iay 19, 26. 



Professor A. Fowler, F.R.S., Sec. R. A. S. Astrophysics Department, 

 Imperial College of Science and Technology. Two Lectures on Celestial 

 Spectroscopy : Experimental Investigations in connection with the 

 Spectra of the Sun, Stars and Comets. On Tuesdays, June 2, 9. 



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