1914] General Monthly Meeting 209 



He was a Member of the Royal Institution for many years, and tcok a 

 warm interest in the prosperity and continued prosecution of the objects of 

 the Foundation in the Diffusion of Science and of Useful Knowledge. He 

 also rendered valuable personal services to the Institution by discharging the 

 duties of Manager and Vice-President. 



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

 Institution, their deepest sympathy with the family in their bereavement 



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

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

 ! Electrical Science in the decease of Sir Joseph Wilson Swan. M.A. D.Sc. 

 I F.R.S. Hon.M.I.E.E., Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. 



j Sir Joseph Swan was well known for his important researches m photo- 



graphic chemistry, and many valuable advances in the art of Photographic 



I Reproduction were due to the results of his investigations. His name will 

 always be associated in the history of Electrical Science with the carbon 

 filament glow lamp. 



Sir Joseph Swan was a Member of the Royal Institution for twenty-nine 

 years ; took an active interest in its welfare ; and rendered valuable services 

 on the Board of Managers. He delivered two H'riday Evening Discourses on 

 "Electric Lighting bv Incandescence" (1882), and ''Electro Metallurgy" 

 (1892). 



The Managers desire to offer, on b-ihalf of the Members of the Royal 

 Institution, the expression of their sincere sympathy with Lady Swan and 

 the family in their bereavement. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to Dr. H J. 

 Backer for his present of a Medallion of Professor A. N. P. Franche- 

 mont, Hon. M.R.I. , coined in memory of the fortieth year of his 

 Professorship and of his seventieth Birthday. 



The following Address from the Royal Institution to the Univer- 

 sity of Groningen, to be presented by Major Edmond H. Hills when 

 he attends as Delegate on the celebration of its Three Hundredth 

 Anniversary, was signed by the President, the Secretary, the 

 Managers, and Officials of the Royal Institution : — 



The Members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, founded in the 

 year 1799 for the Prc.iiGtion, Diffusion, and Extension of Science and of 

 Useful Knowledge, desire to offer their sincere congratulations to the Uni- 

 versity of Groningen on the Celebration of the Three Hundredth Anniversary 

 of its Foundation. They are glad to take this opportunity of recognizing the 

 distinguished position occupied by the University, and it is their earnest prayer 

 that it may long continue to flourish and to take a leading part in the educa- 

 tion of youth, in the encouragement of learning, and in the advancement of 

 natural knowledge. 



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