1916] General Monthly Meeting 565 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 

 Monday, February 7, 191G. 



Sir James Crichton-Browne, J. P. M.D. LL.D. D.Sc. F.K.S., 

 Treasurer and Yice-President, in the Chair. 



The Honorary Secretary announced the decease of the Right 

 Hon. Viscount Alverstone, G.C.M.G. P.O. M.A. D.C.L. LL.D. 

 F.R.S. Hon.M.Inst.C.E., late Lord Chief Justice of England, on 

 December 15, 1915, a Member of the Royal Institution ; and the 

 following Resolution, passed by the Managers at their Meeting held 

 this day, was read and unanimously adopted : — 



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

 their sense of the loss sustained by the Institution, by the decease of Lord 

 Alverstone, G.C.:M.G. P.C. M.A. D.C.L. LL.D. F.R.S. Hon.M.Inst.C.E., late 

 Lord Chief Justice of England, Member of the Royal Commission of Historical 

 IManuscripts. 



Lord Alverstone was a Member of the Royal Institution for thirty years. 

 For many years, as ^Manager and Vice-President, he took an active interest in 

 the welfare of the Institution, and in its administrative and legal afiairs. He 

 rendered valuable advice in connection with the reconstruction of the mode 

 of presentation of the Accounts, by arranging for the introduction of a 

 Chartered Accountant to assist the Visitors in their Annual Audit, which in 

 many ways has been operative for the benefit of the working of the Institution. 

 The charm of the late Lord Chief Justice's personality will long be remembered 

 by the ^Members. 



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. 



Prof essor William Arthur Bone, D.Sc. Ph.D. F.R.S., 

 was elected a Member of the Royal Institution. 



Pursuant to Notice given at the last Meeting, 

 It was Resolved, That Bye-Law Chapter XVIII. , Article 2, be 

 suspended. 



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 — Kodaikanal Observatory, Bulletin, No. 48. 

 4to. 1915. 

 Palseontologia Indica : New Series, Vol. IV. No. 5 ; Vol. V. No. 2. 4to. 

 1914-15. 



