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GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, April 12, 1915. 



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

 Treasurer and Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Honorary Secretary announced the decease of Professor 

 Emile Hilaire Amagat, in March 1915, and of Professor Otto N. 

 Witt, on March 23, 1915, Honorary Members of the Koyal Institu- 

 tion ; and the following Resolutions, passed by the Managers at their 

 Meeting held this day, were read and unanimously adopted : — 



Resolved, That the Managers of the Royal Institution desire to record 

 their sense of the loss sustained by the Institution and the world of Science 

 in the decease of Professor Emile Hilaire Amagat, Officier de la Legion 

 d'Honneur, Membre de I'lnstitut (Academic des Sciences), Foreign Member 

 of the Royal Society of London, and an Honorary Member of the Royal 

 Institution since 1904. 



Professor Amagat was well known for his valuable researches on the 

 behaviour of Gases, Liquids and Solids under very high pressures, and of the 

 conditions of their transition from one state to another. 



The Managers, on behalf of the Members of the Royal Institution, desire 

 to express their most sincere sympathy with the family in their bereave- 

 ment. 



Resolved, That the Managers of the Royal Institution desire to record 

 their sense of the loss sustained by the Institution and the Scientific World 

 by the decease of Geh. Regierungsrath Professor Otto N. Witt, Ph.D. F.C.S., 

 late President of the German Chemical Society, Professor of Chemical Tech- 

 nology in the Technical High School, Berlin, and an Honorary Member of the 

 Royal Institution for six years. 



Professor Witt delivered a Friday Evening Discourse at the Royal Institu- 

 tion in 1902 on " Recent Developments in Colouring Matters." He was 

 distinguished for his original Papers on Organic Chemistry and Chemical 

 Technology, and presided over the International Congress of Applied 

 Chemistry which was held in Berlin in 1903. 



The Managers, on behalf of the Members of the Royal Institution, desire 

 to express their most sincere sympathy with the family in their bereavement. 



Sir James George Frazer, D.C.L., LL.D., Litt.D. 



Lady Frazer, 



William F. Higgins, B.Sc. 



were elected Members of the Eoyal Institution. 



The Presents 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 — Board of Scientific Advice for India : 

 Annual Report for year 1913-14. 8vo. 1915. 

 Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, Bulletin No. 45. 8vo, 1914. 

 Memoirs of Department of Agriculture : Botanical Series, Vol. VI. No. 8. 



