702 General Monthly Meeting [July 3, 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, July o, 1916. 



Sir James Cricktox-Browne, J.P. M.D. LL.D. D.Sc. F.R.S., 

 Treasurer and Vice-President, in the Cliair. 



Mrs. Charles Chenevix-Trench, 

 James AVatt, 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Honorary Secretary announced the decease of The Right 

 Hon. Sir James Stirling, P^G. LL.D. F.R.S., on June 27, 1916, and 

 of Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, D.Sc. LL.D. F.R.S., on June 12, 

 1916, Members of the Royal Institution ; and the following Resolu- 

 tions, passed by the Managers at their Meeting held this day, were 

 read and unanimously adopted : 



Resolved, That the Managers of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 

 desire to record their sense of the loss sustained by the Institution, and the 

 World of Science, by the decease of The Right Hon. Sir James Stirling, a late 

 Lord Justice of Appeal, Privy Councillor, Senior Wrangler, and first Smith's 

 Prizeman in Trinity College, Cambridge, 1860, LL D. (Aber.) F.R.S. 



Sir James Stirling was a Member of the Royal Institution for twenty-six 

 years, and discharged the official duties of a Manager and Vice-President. 

 He took a great interest in the affairs of the Institution, and rendered it 

 many valuable services in giving the Managers the benefit of his great legal 

 knowledge. 



After his retirement from the Bench, he took up again his mathematical 

 and botanical studies, and kept up his intsrest in the Advancement of Science 

 up to the last. The presence of his familiar figure in the Library and Reading 

 Rooms of the Institution which he so frequently visited, and his attendance 

 at the Lectures, will be much missed. 



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

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

 the family in their bereavement. 



Resolved, That the Managers of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 

 desire to record their sense of the loss sustained by the Institution, and 

 the World of Science, by the decease of Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, 

 D.Sc.(Lond.) LL.D. (Birmingham and Bristol), F.R.S. , Principal and Professor 

 of Physics in the City and Guilds Technical College, Finsbury ; Past-President 

 of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, the Physical, and other Societies. 

 He contributed a large number of original papers to scientific societies, and 

 pubhshed many educational and scientific works, among them being the 

 following: — "Elementary Lessons in Electricity and Magnetism"; 

 " Dynamo - Electric Machinery"; "The Electro - Magnet and Electro - 

 INIagnetic Mechanisms " ; " Polyphase Electric Currents and Motors " ; 

 ^' Light: Visible and Invisible";"^ "Magnetism in Growth"; "Design of 



