1915] General Monthly Meeting :^,69 



CxENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, March 1, 1915. 



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

 Treasurer and Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Ernest George Coker, Esq., M.A. D.Sc. 



Arthur L. Armitage Forbes, Esq., M.D. F.R.C.S. 



Mrs. L. M. de Laszlo. 



Charles James Singleton, Esq. 



Frank Coston Taylor, Esq. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Managers reported, That they had received a sum of 

 £5000 from the Rt. Hon. Charles A. Parsons. 



Reacl^ the following letter addressed by the Hon. Sir Charles 

 Parsons to Sir James Crichton-Browne, the Treasurer: — 



February 14, 1915. 

 Deae Sir James, 



It gives me great pleasure to enclose cheque £5000 in favour of the 

 Royal Institution, which may be of some help at the present time. 



Yours very sincerely, 



(Signed) Charles A, Parsons. 



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

 desire to express to the Hon. Sir Charles A. Parsons, K.C.B., J.P., LL.D,, 

 D.Sc, F.R.S., who has unconditionally placed at their disposal, for the 

 purposes of the Institution, the sum of £6000, their most grateful appreciation 

 of his munificence and discernment. They accept the gift as a timely and 

 noble recognition of the good public work the Institution has done in the past, 

 and is still doing, in the acquisition and difiusion of scientific knowledge, 

 and as an incitement to maintain and extend its usefulness in the unique 

 position which it has for more than a century occupied. 



Resolved, That the Resolution of the Managers be adopted by the 

 Members. 



The Peesents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

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



from 

 The Secretary of State for India — Agricultural Research Institute : Pusa : 

 Report for 1913-14. 8vo. 1914. 

 Agricultural Journal, Vol. X. Part 1. 8vo. 1915. 

 Accountants, Association of — Journal, No. 38, Vol. VIII. 8vo. 1915. 

 Alchemical S ociety—^Jouinal, Vol. III. Parts 15, 16. 8vo. 1915. 



