1907.] General Monthly Meeting. 531 



The Chairman reported that the followiiifc Letters had been 

 received from the Honorary Members who were elected at the 

 General Meeting on December :>, 1906. 



gjg UpsALA, December 11, 19U6. 



I beg you to convey to the President and the Members of the Royal 

 Institution of Great Britain my most lespectful and sincere thanks on account of 

 m}' having been elected an Honorary Member of their illustrious Institution. 



I am keenly and humbly sensible of the great honour hereby conferred on me, 

 which I feel to be a most precious encouragement to continue, to the best of my 

 powers, my endeavours in the service of science. 



Yours very sincerely, 



(Signed) H. H. HILDEBRANDSSON. 



Cambridge, U.S.A. 

 Dear Sir December 13, 1906. 



» Your favour of December 4, announcing my election to Honorary Member- 

 ship in the Royal Institution, has just come. 



Permit me to express my profound appreciation of this very great honour, and 

 my gratitude to the Members for their kindness and interest in my work. It is 

 needless to say that I accept the Honorary Membership with the greatest pleasure. 

 To have one's name entered upon a roll containing those of so many men of 

 highest eminence is a great privilege and encouragement. 



I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 

 (Signed) THEODORE WM. RICHARDS. 



Sir, 



Kiel, December 16, 1906. 



Allow me to transfer to you my sincere thanks, due to the Members of the 

 Royal Institution of Great Britain, for the very great honour they have done me 

 by electing me — unanimously, I am informed — an Honorary Member of the 

 Institution. 



Every philosopher knows so well the history of the Royal Institution — knows 

 Faraday — that it is certainly needless to say how much I value this Membership. 



Not being able to come over presently to England, I try to apj^ly to your 

 kindness in helping me forwarding any due expression of my thanks to all 

 Members of the Institution. 



I am, yours very truly, 



(Signed) P. LENARD. 



{_Translation.] 

 Dear Sir Munich, December 16, 1906 



Having received your kind letters of the 4th and 11th December, as well as 

 the printed matter and the Diploma as " Honorary Member of the Royal 

 Institution <jf Great Britain," I have the honour to express to you my thanks for 

 y(jur trouble, and to beg you to tell the Committee how deeply honoured I feel by 

 this exceptional and high distinction. 



To be an Honorary Member of an institution whose task is the ' ' Promotion, 

 Diffusion and Extension of Science and of Useful Knowledge," and to which the 

 most brilliant stars of our scientific firmament, su(jh as Davy, Faraday, Lord 

 Rayleigh, J. J. Thomson, Dewar, and many others, have belonged, is certainly the 

 highest guerdon for a long life devoted to the teaching and pursuit of chemical 

 knowledge. 



I am, with especial respect, your devoted 



ADOLF vox BAYER. 



Dear Sir Upsala, December 17, 1906. 



Some days since I had the honour to receive your information of my 

 election as Honorary Member of the Royal Institution, and yesterday I got the 

 Diploma. 



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