1916] General Monthly Meeting 707 



CxENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, November 6, 1916. 



His Grace The .Duke of Northumberland, President, 

 in the Chair. 



Lord Glenconner, 



Sir William TroUope, Bart., 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Secretary announced the decease of Sir Victor Horsley, 

 M.B. B.S. F.R.S. F.R.C.S., on July 16, 1916, 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 Managers of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 

 at this their first Meeting held since his decease, desire to record their sense of 

 the loss sustained by the Institution, and the World of Science, by the decease of 

 Sir Victor Horsley, M.B. (Lond.) B.S. F.R.S. F.R.C.S., late Secretary to the 

 Royal Commission on Hydrophobia ; Fullerian Professor of Physiology, Royal 

 Institution ; Professor of Pathology to University College. 



Sir Victor . Horsley was Consultant with the Forces in Mesopotamia, and 

 was not only a very distinguished Surgeon, but an Original Investigator in the 

 Field of Medicine and Surgery. He was First Medallist of the Lannelongue 

 International Prize in Surgery; Royal Medallist of the Royal Society; 

 LL.D. and D.C.L. Montreal and McGill Universities ; Foreign Associate of the 

 Academy of Medicine, Paris ;. Member of Medical Societies in Rome, Petrograd, 

 Sweden, Philadelphia, etc. He was awarded the "Cameron " and "Fothergill " 

 Gold Medals, and was First Chairman of the Representative Meet'ng of the 

 British Medical Association. 



Sir Victor Horsley was a Member of the Royal Institution for twenty-nine 

 year^, and discharged the official duties of Professor, Visitor, and Manager. He 

 was the Author of the following Books : — " Structure and Function of the Brain 

 and Spinal Cord " ; " The Cerebellum " ; " On the Alleged Responsibility of 

 the Medical Profession for the Re-introduction of the Rum Ration into the 

 British Army " ; " Alcohol and the Human Body." 



The titles of the Lectures delivered by Sir Victor Horsley during his 

 occupancy of the Fullerian Professorship of Physiology (ISOl-lSOi) were : — , 

 " The Modern Physiology of the Brain and its Relation to the Mind " ; " The 

 Structure and Functions of the Nervous System : The Spinal Cord and 

 Ganglia"; "The Brain"; *' The Functions ot the Cerebellum and the Ele- 

 mentary Principles of Psycho-Physiology." ':'^^'^, 



Sir Victor Horsley delivered five Friday Evening Discourses, on th^^llow- 

 ing subjects : — " Motor Centres of the Brain, and the Mechanism of tK^\VilI-" 

 (1885) ; " Brain Surgery in the Stone Ages " (1887) ; " Hydrophobia " (i89lj ; 

 " The Destructive Effects of Projectiles " (1894) ; " Roman Defences of Sauth- 

 East Britain " (1899). 



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