1915] General Monthly Meeting 5ai) 



thit is, at the Geaeral Monthly Meeting to be held on the first 

 Moiilay in the month of February. 



Northumberland. Walter Child. 



James Crichton-Browne. Thomas Barlow. 



Wrexbury. F. W. Mander. 



Chas. J. Tabor. Maures Horner. 



A. N. Butt. Charles Hawksley. 



J. G. Gordon. W. B. Gibbs. 



Alex. Siemens. F. Lys Smith. 



Kothschild. Edward Pollock. 



Eoyal Institution, 



Albemarle Street, W., 



6th December, 1915. 



The Honorary Secretary announced the decease of Sir Arthur 

 Riicker, M.A. LL.D. D.Sc.^F.R.S., on Xovember 1, 1915, and of 

 Professor Raphael Meldola, LL.D. D.Sc. F.R.S. F.C.S., on Xovem- 

 ber 16, 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 by the Institution, and by the World of 

 Science, by the decease of Sir Arthur Riicker, M.A. LL.D. D.Sc. F.R.S. 

 M.I.E.E., Principal of the University of London, Professor of Physics at the 

 Royal College of Science, Past President of the British Association, a Member 

 of Royal Commissions on various Universities ; awarded a Royal Medal by the 

 Royal Society of London. 



The published papers of Sir Arthur Riicker cover a wide field of research. 

 The work which he did in co-operation with other distinguished scientific 

 men has been recognized as of world - wide importance, especially the 

 " Magnetic Survey of the British Isles," and " Investigations on Physical 

 Properties of Liquid Films." 



Sir Arthur Riicker was a Member of the Royal Institution for twenty-nine 

 years, and served as a Visitor and a Manager. He delivered five Friday 

 Evening Discourses: "Liquid Films" (1885); "Electrical Stress" (1889); 

 "Magnetic Rocks " (1891) ; " Physical Work of Von Helmholtz " (1895) ; and 

 " Earth Currents and Electric Traction " (1899). He also delivered a Course 

 of Lectures on "Molecular Forces" (1887), and a Christmas Course of 

 Juvenile Lectures on " Electricity " (1889-90). Su3h a varied scientific 

 output shows how much the progress of Science has benefited by Sir Arthur 

 Riicker's labour, and how generously he supported the objects of the Royal 

 Institution in the diffusion of knowledge. 



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

 of the Royal Institution, their most sincere sympathy with the family in 

 their bereavement. 



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, 

 by the decease of Professor Raphael Meldola, LL.D. D.Sc. F.R.S. F.R.A.S. 

 F.C.S. F.I.C., Professor of Chemistry in the Finsbury Technical College, Past 

 President of the Chemical Society, the Society of Chemical Industry, Society 

 of Dyers and Colourists, Institute of Chemistry, and the Entomologists' 

 Society, Chairman of the Advisory Council of the Board of British Dyers ; 

 awarded a Davy Medal by the Royal Society of London. 



