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CtExeral monthly meeting, 



Monday, May 7, 1906. 



His Grace The Duke of Northumberland, K.G. D.C.L. F.R.S. 

 President, in the Chair. 



Horatio Ballantyne, Esq. 

 Sir Walter Balfour Barttelot, Bart. 

 Gustav Hamel, M.D. M.Y.O. 

 William Morris Mordey, Esq. 

 Captain Adrian Rose, 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



It was announced that His Grace the President had nominated 

 the following Vice-Presidents for the ensuing year : — 



The Right Hon. Lord Alverstone, G.C.M.G. M.A. LL.D. F.R.S. 

 Sir William Huggins, O.M. K.C.B. D.C.L. LL.D. Ph.D. F.R.S. 

 The Right Hon. Lord Kelvin, O.M. G.C.Y.O. D.C.L. LL.D. 



D.Sc. F.R.S. 

 Dr. Ludwig Mond, Ph.D. F.R.S. 

 The Ridit Hon. Lord Sanderson, G.C.B. K.C.M.G. 

 The Right Hon. Sir James Stirling, M.A. LL.D. F.R.S. 

 Sir James Crichton-Browne, M.D. LL.D. F.R.S. (Treasurer) 

 Sir William Crookes, D.Sc. F.R.S. (Honorary Secretary). 



The Chairman reported the decease of Professor Pierre Curie,, 

 and the following resolution of condolence passed by the Managers at 

 their meeting held this day was read and was adopted. 



Resolved, that the Managers of the Royal Institution of Great 

 Britain desire to record their deep sense of the loss the scientific world 

 has sustained in the decease of Professor Pierre Curie, one of the 

 Honorary Members of the Institution. 



In June 1903, he delivered a Friday Evening Discourse, giving 

 an account of the epoch-making discoveries made by himself and 

 Madame Curie on the isolation and properties of Radium, and also 

 embodying the results of some low temperature experiments made by 

 him in the Laboratory of the Royal Institution. In the following 

 year he was elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Institution. 



The Managers, on behalf of the Members of the Royal Institution, 

 desire to offer to Madame Curie the expression of the most sincere 

 sympathy in her bereavement. 



The special thanks of the Members were returned to the Royal 

 Institution Picture Committee, Dr. Ludwig Mond, and other members 

 for their valuable gift of Mr. H. Jamyn Brooks' Picture of a Friday 

 Evening Discourse by Professor Sir James Dewar in the Lecture Room 

 of the Institution. 



