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GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



MoiuLiy, June ;>, 1!)07. 



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

 Vice-Presideut, in the Chair. 



Commander G. R. Bethell, late R.N. 

 Dr. Hans Goldschmidt, 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to Mr. Oswald 

 Lewis for his Donation of Five Guineas to the Fund for the Promo- 

 tion of Experimental Research at Low Temperatures. 



The Chairman reported the decease of Sir Benjamin Baker, K.C.B. 

 K.C.M.G. F.R.S., a Vice-President and Manag-er, on the 19th of May, 

 and the following Resolution of condolence 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 

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

 Institution has sustained in the decease of Sir Benjamin Baker, K.C.B. K.C.M.G. 

 LL.D. D.Sc. F.R.S., past President of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 



Sir Benjamin Baker was elected a Member of the Royal Institution in 1882. 

 He took an active interest in the welfare of the Institution, and on former 

 occasions both as Vice-President and Manager rendered invaluable service to 

 the Institution by contributing to the Research Fund. 



He delivered Friday Evening Discourses on the two great engineering works 

 completed under his direction, namely: "Bridging the Firth of Forth," on 

 May 20, 1887 ; and " The Nile Dams and Reservoirs," on June 6, 1902, when 

 H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, K.G., the Vice-Patron, presided. 



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. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

 table, and the thanks of the Members returned for the same, viz. : — 



FEOM 



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