lt)15] General Monthly Meeting 531 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, November 1, 1915. 



Sir James Crichtox-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 Sir Andrew 

 Noble, Bart., K.C.B. D.C.L. D.Sc. F.E S., on October 22, 1915, 

 and of Mr. WilHam Hugh Spottiswoode on August 20, 1915, 

 Members of the Royal Institution ; 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 bv the Institution, and the World of Science, 

 by the decease of Sir Andrew Noble, Bart., K.C.B. D.C.L. D.Sc. F.R.S., 

 Hon.M.Inst.C.E., and recipient of a large number of Foreign Orders, late 

 Member of various Government Select Committees on Explosives, 



Sir Andrew Noble was a Member of the Royal Institution for twenty-eight 

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

 generous contributor towards the Royal Institution Fund for the Promotion 

 of Experimental Research. 



In association with the late Lord Armstrong, Sir Andrew Noble took the 

 most prominent part iii the development and management of the Elswick 

 Works. In the midst of great business responsibilities, he found time to 

 carry out extensive experimental and chemical investigations upon the pro- 

 perties of various powders employed in artillery. His classical investigations 

 on the composition, volume?, pressures and temperatures of the gases 

 developed by different explosives during the period of combustion have been 

 universally recognized as researches of the highest importance in the Scientific 

 World. 



Sir Andrew Noble delivered three Friday Evening Discourses : " On the 

 Tension of Fired Gunpowder," 1871 ; "Some Modern Explosives," 1900; and 

 " Fifty Years of Explosives," 1907. His investigations are summarized in a 

 work on " Artillery and Explosives," published in 1906. 



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

 of the Royal Institution, their most sincere sympathy with Lady Noble and 

 the family in their bereavement. 



Resolved, That the Managers of the Royal Institution desire, at this 

 their first Meeting since his death, to record their sense of the loss sustained 

 by the Institution, by the decease of William Hugh Spottiswoode, eldest son 

 of the late William Spottiswoode, for fourteen years Treasurer and Secretary 

 of the Royal Institution. 



Mr. William Hugh Spottiswoode was a Member of the Royal Institution 

 for twenty-five years, and served as a Visitor, Manager and Vice-President, 

 As a Manager he rendered valuable assistance in the transactions of the 

 business affairs and concerns of the Institution, and was deeply interested in 

 its welfare. 



