208 General Monthly Meeting [June 8, 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, June 8, 1914. 



His Grace The Duke of Northumberlai^d, K.G. P.O. D.C.L. 

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



Henry Best Hans Hamilton, Esq., J. P. 



Sir William Hesketh Lever, Bart. 



Hay Whitworth Pierre Matthey, Esq. 



Percy St. Clair Matthey, Esq., J.P. '^ 



Miss Matthey, 



John Francis Claverton Snell, Esq., M.Inst.C.E. 



Thomas John Taylor, Esq., M.LE.E. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



His Grace the President reported that he had nominated the 

 following- as Vice-Presidents during the ensuing year : — 



The Ri^ht Hon. Lord Blvth, J.P. 



J. H. Balfour Browne, Esq., K.C. LL.D. 



Charles Hawkslev, Esq., M.Inst.C.E. 



Donald William Charles Hood, Esq., C.V.O. M.D. F.R.C.P. 



The Right Hon. Lord Moulton, P.C. LL.D. F.R.S. 



Edward Pollock, Esq., F.R.C.S. 



Sir James Crichtou-Browne, M.D. LL.D. D.Sc. F.R.S., 



Treasurer. 

 Alexander Siemens, Esq., M.Inst.C.E., Secretary. 



The Secretary reported the decease of Sir Francis Laking 

 on May 21, and of Sir Joseph Swan on May 27, Members of the 

 Royal Institution, and the following Resolutions of Condolence with 

 the families were passed : — 



Resolved, That the Managers of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 

 desire to record their sense of the loss sustained by the Institution and 

 Medical Science in the decease of Sir Francis Henry Laking, Bart., G.C.V.O. 

 K.O.B. M.D. LL.D. M.R.C.P., Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. 



Sir Francis Laking was Surgeon Apothecary in Ordinary to the late 

 Queen Victoria, Physician in Ordinary to the late King Edward VII., and 

 also to His Majesty King George V. 



