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GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, February 4, 1907. 



Sir James Crichtox-Browne, M.D. LL.D. F.R.S., Treasurer and 

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Hon. George Peel, 



Sir David Gill, K.C.B. LL.D. D.Sc. F.R.S. 

 Stephen Archigenes lonides, Esq. 

 Herbert M. Phipson, Esq. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to Tiudwig 

 Mond, Esq., Ph.D. D.Sc. F.R.S., for his Donation of £300, and to 

 Professor Sir James Dewar, M.A. D.Sc. F.R.S., for his Donation of 

 £100, to the Fund for the Promotion of Experimental Research at 

 Low Temperatures. 



The Chairman reported the decease of The Baroness Burdett-Coutts 

 on the 80th of December, of Miss Agnes M. Gierke on the 20th of 

 January, and of Professor Demetri Ivanovitch Mendeleeff on the 

 2nd of February, and the following Resolutions passed by the 

 Managers at their Meeting held this day were read and adopted : — 



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

 desire to record, at this, their first Meeting subsequent to her death, their 

 sense of the loss sustained by the Institution in the decease of the Baroness 

 Burdett-Coutts, 



The Baroness Burdett-Coutts was elected a Member of the Royal Institu- 

 tion as far back as the year 1847, and for many years took an active interest 

 in its welfare, being a friend of Professor Faraday and Professor Tyndall. 



The Managers desire to offer to Mr. Burdett-Coutts the expression of their 

 most sincere sympathy with him in his bereavement. 



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

 desire to record their sense of the loss sustained by the Institution in the 

 decease of Miss Agnes M. Gierke, Hon. F.R.A.S. 



Miss Clerke was elected a Member of the Royal Institution in 1902. She 

 was awarded the Actonian Prize by the Managers of the Royal Institution in 

 1893 for her distinguished scientific contribution to Astronomical Literature ; 

 and in 1901 she was requested by the Managers to write the first Essay under 

 the Hodgkins Trust, on " Low Temperature Research at the Royal Institution 

 of Great Britain, 1893-1900." 



The Managers desire to offer to the family the expression of their most 

 sincere sympathy with them in their bereavement. 



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

 their sense of the irreparable loss to Science and to the Institution in the 



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