1907.] General Monthly Meeting. 710 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, November 4, 1907. 



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

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Robert John Collie, M.D. 

 Sir Murland Evans, Bart. 

 Harry Richardson, Esq. M.I.E.E. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to " A Member " 

 for a Donation of £50 to the Fund for the Promotion of Experi- 

 mental Research at Low Temperatures. 



The Honorary Secretary reported the decease of Sir William 

 Perkin, LL.D. Ph.D. D.Sc. F.R.S. F.C.S., a Manager, on July 14, 

 1907, and the following Resolution, passed by the Managers at their 

 Meeting held this day, was read and unanimously adopted : — 



Resolved, The Managers of the Royal Institution of Great Britain desire to 

 record at this, their first Meeting subsequent to his death, their sense of the 

 loss sustained by the Institution and by Chemical Science in the decease of 

 Sir William Perkin. 



Sir William Perkin became a Member of the Royal Institution in 1900, and 

 he was elected a Manager in May 1907. He delivered a Friday Evening 

 Discourse on the " Newest Colouring Matters " so long ago as May 14, 1869. 



On the occasion of the International Celebration of the Coal Tar Colour 

 Jubilee, which took place in the Lecture Room of the Royal Institution in July 

 1906, Sir William Perkin was presented with numerous addresses and medals 

 by eminent chemists and representatives from Foreign Societies and Academies. 



The INIanagers desire to offer on behalf of the Members of the Royal Insti- 

 tution the expression of their most sincere sympathy with Lady Perkin and 

 the family in their bereavement. 



The following Address to the Geological Society on the occasion 

 of the Centenary celebration was presented by Professor Henry E. 

 Armstrong, F.R.S., on behalf of the Members of the Royal Institu- 

 tion on September 26 last : — 



The Royal Institution of Great Britain desires to offer to The 

 GEOLOGiCAii Society of London cordial congratulations on the occasion of 

 the celebration of its Centenary. 



The jNIembers of the Royal Institution appreciate and honour the great 

 work accomplished by the Geological Society, and revere the names of the 

 many distinguished Fellows, who, in the past, by their investigations and 

 writings, have rendered such signal services to the cause of Geological Science. 



It is the earnest wish of the Royal Institution that the Geological Society 

 may continue to prosper in the Certury to come, and that Science be still 

 further enriched by its valuable contributions to our knowledge of the material 

 structure of our Globe. 



(Signed) Northumberland, 

 President. 



