528 General Monthly Meeting [July 5, 



The Right Hon. Lord AYrenbury stated that he was authorized to 

 report to the General Meeting of Members two Resolutions passed 

 by the Managers at their Meeting this day, and which under the 

 special circumstances the Members might desire to support : 



Resolved, That the Royal IiiPtitution is desirous, as it always has been, 

 of rendering to His Majesty's Government in relation to the War every 

 assistance which lieu within their objects as defined and governed by the 

 Charter and Act of Parliament governing the Royal Institution, and by the 

 Conveyance and Deed of Trust of the Davy Faraday Research Laboratory. 



Resolved, That, with a view to giving effect to this desire, letters be 

 addressed to the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Secretary of State for War^ 

 the Minister of Munitions, and the Chairman of the Inventions Board of the 

 Admiralty, requesting them to communicate with the Managers, in case there 

 is any field of Research in relation to or connected with Chemical and Physical 

 Science, or either of them, to which the Professors, Assistants, and Staff of 

 the Royal Institution or of the Laboratory can usefully direct their attention 

 with a view to giving assistance to His Majesty's Government in the conduct 

 of the War, or in case they desire that any Members of their respective Staffs 

 shall be admitted to work in the Laboratory in the prosecution of any such 

 Research. 



The above Resolutions were independently supported by the 

 unanimous Vote of the Members present. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

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



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

 Bulletin, Nos. 47, 50. 8vo. 1914. 

 Report on ihe Progress of Agriculture in India for 1913-14. 8vo. 1913-14» 

 Agricultural Journal of India for April, 1915. 8vo. 

 Kodaikanal Observatorv, Bulletin, No. 46. 4to. 1915. 

 Geological Survey Records, Vol. XLY. Part 2. Svo. 1914. 

 Astronomer Royal — Annual Report to the Visitors of the Royal Observatory, 



Greenwich, for the Year ending May 10, 1915. 4to. 1915. 

 Accountants, Association of — Journal, Vol. VIII. No. 43. Svo. 1915. 

 American Geographical Society — Bulletin, Vol. XLVII. No. 6. Svo. 1914. 

 Astronomical Society, Royal — Monthly Notices, Vol. LXXV. No. 7. Svo. 1915. 

 British Architects, Royal Institute o/— Journal, Third Series, Vol. XXII. Nos. 



15, 16. 4to, 1915. 

 British Association for the Advancement of Science — Report of the Eighty- 

 Fourth Meeting, July 28-August 31, 1914, Australia. Svo. 1915. 

 British Astronomical Association — Journal, Vol. XXV. No. 7. Svo. 1915. 

 Buenos Aires — Bulletin of Municipal Statistics for Jan.-Feb. 1915. 4to. 

 Cambridge Philosophical Society — Proceedings, Vol. XVIII. Part 3. Svo. 1915. 

 Canala, Department of Mines — Bulletin, Nos. 9-14. Svo. 1914. 

 Geological Survey : Memoir, Nos. 30, 56, 57, 59. Svo. 1914. 

 INIines Branch : Summary Report of the Mines Branch for the Year 1914. 

 Svo. 1915. 

 Annual Report on the Mineral Productions of Canada in 1913. Svo. 1914, 

 Preliminary Report on the Bituminous Sands of Northern Alberta. Svo. 



1914. 

 Museum Bulletin, No. 10. Svo. 1915. 

 Canada, Royal Society of — Geological Section : Transactions, Vol. VIII. Dec. 

 1914-March 1915. Svo. 



