1915] General Monthly Meeting 505 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, June 7, 1915 



Sir James Crichtox-Browxe, 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 Dr. Hugo W. 

 Miiller, F.R.S., on Mav 23, 1915, and of Sir Arthur H. Church, 

 K.C.V.O., F.R.S., on May 31, 1915, Members of the Royal 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 desire to record their sense of the loss 

 sustained bv the Institution, and the World of Science, bv the decease 

 of Dr. Hugo W. Miiller, Ph.D. (Gottingen) LL.D. (St. Andrews) D.Sc. 

 (Manchester), a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Past-President of the 

 Chemical Society, and the Author of numerous Papers. 



Dr. Miiller was a Member of the Royal Institution for forty years, and 

 served as a Visitor, a Manager, and Vice-President. He was a generous con- 

 tributor towards the Funds for the Promotion of Experimental Research, and 

 in the year 1910 gave a handsome Donation of £1000 towards the Funds of 

 the Institution. 



Dr. ]\Iiiller collaborated for many years in Scientific Research with the late 

 Dr. Warren de la Rue, and the Royal Institution possesses many Scientific 

 Instruments that were used in their important Experimental Researches on 

 the Electric Discharge with the celebrated Chloride of Silver Battery, con- 

 sisting of 14,400 cells. 



For the last twelve years Dr. Miiller has been a Worker in the Davy Faraday 

 Research Laboratory of the Royal Institution, and during that time commu- 

 nicated many Papers of the highest merit and originality in the field of 

 Organic Chemistry, more especially directed to the elucidation of the Nature 

 of the Chemical Structure of Products of the Vegetable Kingdom. 



Dr. Miiller was one of the most original of the old School of Scientific 

 Workers, and contributed thirty-five Papers since 1870, sixteen of which were 

 in conjunction with Dr. Warren de la Rue. 



Resolved, That the Managers desire to express, on behalf of the Members 

 of the Royal Institution, their most sincere sympathy with Mrs. MiiUer and 

 the family in their bereavement. 



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

 their sense of the loss the Institution and the World of Science have sustained 

 by the decease of Sir Arthur Herbert Church, K.C.V.O. D.Sc. (Oxon) F.C.S., 

 Fellow of the Royal Society ; President of the Mineralogical Society, 1898- 

 1901 ; a Fellow of King's College, London ; and Professor of Chemistry in the 

 Royal Academy, 1879-1911. 



Sir Arthur Church was a Member of the Royal Institution for forty-six 

 years, and served as a Visitor, a Manager, and Vice-President. He delivered 

 two Friday Evening Discourses— one in 1893, on " Turacin, a Remarkable 

 Animal Pigment containing Copper," and the other in 1907, on " Conservation 

 of Historic Buildings and Frescoes." He also delivered an important Course 

 of Lectures in 1891, on " The Scientific Study of Decorative Colour." 



