442 General Monthly Meeting [May 3, 



The Secretary read the following Resolution passed by the 

 Managers at their Meeting held this day : — 



The Managers of the Koyal Institution of Great Britain desire to place 

 on permanent record their grateful sense of the value of the services rendered 

 to the Institution by Mr. Alexander Siemens as Secretary. During his period 

 of Ofi&ce, Mr. Alexander Siemens gave unsparingly of his time and attention 

 to the duties, and largely contributed thereby to the success which has 

 attended the Administration of the Institution. 



'Mv. Alexander Siemens is a Past President of the Institution of Civil 

 Engineers, and of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. He has been a 

 Member of the Royal Institution for thirty-three years, and during that time 

 delivered the following Friday Evening Discourses : — " Theory and Practice 

 in Electrical Science," in 1893 ; " Cable-laying on the Amazon River," in 

 1896; " New Developments in Electric Railways," in 1904 ; "Tantalum and 

 its Industrial Applications," in 1909; upon all of which he spent much time 

 and attention in their elaborate illustration by Experiments. He thus followed 

 in the footseps of his relation, the late Sir William Siemens, whose Friday 

 Evening Discourses at the Royal Institution are landmarks in the past history 

 of Science. 



The Managers rejoice to know that Mr. Alexander Siemens will as a 

 ^lanager continue to give them and the Royal Institution the benefit of his 

 assistance and advice. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to Thomas ^Y. 

 Dewar, M.D. F.R.C.P.E. F.R.S.E. M.R.I., for his Donation of 

 £15 15.S. to the Fund for the Promotion of Experimental Research 

 at Low Temperatures. 



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

 ScD. 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. : — 



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