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GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, April 8, 1907. 



Sir James Crichton-Brownb, M.D. LL.D. F.R.S., Treasurer and 

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Edward Taylor Hanson, Esq., B.A. 



Mrs. H. Lo^effler, 



Sir Alexander Pedler. CLE. F.R.S. 



John Percy Smith, Esq. 



Frederic Harold Sullv, Esq.. 



Alfred Herbert Tubby, Esq., M.S. F.R.C.S. 



Christopher Alfred Woods, Esq. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to Sir Andrew 

 Noble, K.C.B. F.R.S., for his Donation of £200 to the Fund for the 

 Promotion of Experimental Research at Low Temperatures ; and to 

 Lady Kelvin for her Gift of a Statuette of the Ris^ht Hon. Lord 

 Kelvin, O.M. G.C.Y.O. P.C. F.R.S. M.R.I. 



The Chairman reported the decease of M. Marcellin Berthelot 

 on the 18th of March, and of Dr. Allan Macfadyen on the 1st of 

 March, 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 their sense of the irreparable loss to Science and to the Insti- 

 tution in the decease of their Honorary Member, M. Marcellin Pierre Eugene 

 Berthelot, Hon.F.R.S. Hon.F.C.S. Grand Croix de la Legion d'Honneur, 

 S6nateur, Membre de I'lnstitut, Secretaire perpetuel de I'Academie des Sciences, 

 Paris. 



M. Berthelot was elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Institution on 

 the occasion of the Faraday Centenary in 1891. 



He was presented with an address from the Members of the Royal Institu- 

 tion on the occasion of the Jubilee of his Scientific Researches, and Professor 

 Cornu and Professor Llascart, as Honorary Members, represented the Royal 

 Institution at the celebration in Paris on November 24, 1901. 



The Managers desire to offer on behalf of the Members of the Royal Institu- 

 tion the expression of their most sincere sympathy and heartfelt condolence 

 with the family in their bereavement. 



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

 desire to record their sense of the great loss to Science and to the Institution 

 in the decease of the late Fullerian Professor of Physiology, Allan Macfadyen, 

 M.D. B.Sc, formerly Director of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine. 



Dr. Macfadyen, in a series of experiments encouraged by Professor Sir 

 James Dewar and aided by the Cryogenic Laboratory of the Royal Institution, 

 investigated the influence of low temperatures on bacterial life with most 



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