156 General Monthly Meeting [^lay 4, 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING. 

 Monday, May 4, 1914. 



Sir James Crichtox-Browne, J.P. M.D. LL.D. D.Sc. F.R.8., 

 Treasui'er and Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Sir John H. Biles, LL.D. D.Sc. M.Inst.C.E. 



Reginald Claude Bussell, Esq., F.Z.S. 



James Carmichael, Esq., J.P. 



Roger Cookson, Esq. 



Montague Stanley Napier, Esq. 



Miss Kathleen O'Sullivan, i 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Chairman announced that a Legacy of £1U0 had been 

 received from the Executors of the late Mrs. Edward Singleton, 

 a Member of the Royal Institution for twenty-two years. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to Richard 

 Pearce, Esq., M R.I., for his Donation of £10() to the Fund for the 

 Promotion of Experimental Research. 



The Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh, O.M. P.C. M.A. D.C.L. LL.D. 

 Sc.l). F.R.S. M.R.I., was re-elected Honorary Professor of Natural 

 Philosophy, and Sir Joseph John Thomson, O.M. M.A. LL.D. D.Sc. 

 F.R.S. M.R.I. , was re-elected Professor of Natural Philosophy. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

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



The Lords of the Admiralty — Greenwich Observations, 1912. 4to. 1913. 

 Greenwich Photo-Heliographic Results, 1912. 4to. 1913. 

 Position of the Sun's Axis, 1874-1912. 4to. 1913. 



Photographic Magnitudes of Stars between 75° and the Pole. 4to. 1918. 

 Cape Observatory : Annals, Vol. X. Part 4. 4to. 1913. 

 Cape Astrographic Zones, Vol. I. 4to, 1913. 

 The Secretary of State for India — Census of India, 1911, Vol. I. Parts 1-2. 

 4to. 1913. 

 Memoirs of Department of Agriculture : Botanical Series, Vol. VI. No. 4. 

 8vo. 1914. 

 Abbadia, Observatoire (the Director-) — Proces Verbaux des Seances de I'Academie 

 des Sciences depuis la fondation. Tome III-IV. 4to. 1913. 



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