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SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING, 



Friday, December 15, 1893. 



The Honorary Secretary (Sir Frederick Bramwell) reported that 

 fey order of His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, K.G. (the 

 President), this Special General Meeting had been summoned to pass 

 a vote of sympathy and condolence with Mrs. Tyndall on the occasion 

 of the death (on December 4th) of Dr. Tyndall, Honorary Professor 

 of Natural Philosophy of the Institution. 



The Honorary Secretary read a letter from the President expressing 

 regret at his inability to be present, and thereupon 



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

 Vice-President, was voted into the Chair. 



There were also present : — Sir John Lubbock, Sir Ricbard Webster, 

 Sir Joseph Lister, Sir Frederick Abel, Lord Grimthorpe, Sir Douglas 

 Galton, Sir Philip Magnus, Dr. Edward Frankland, Dr. J. H. G?ad- 

 stone, Dr. Thomas Buzsard, and Professor Dewar. 



The Honorary Secretary read letters and telegrams of regret 

 from many Members unable to be present, and expressing sympathy 

 with the object of the meeting :— among these were Lord Kelvin, Lord 

 Kayleigh, the Comte de Paris, Sir James N. Douglass, Sir William 

 O. Priestley, the Rev. Canon Jenkins, Mr. Joseph Brown, and 

 Dr. Anderson. 



Sir James Criohton-Browne (the Chairman) said ; I think I may 

 venture to say that it is good for us to be here this afternoon — to 

 withdraw ourselves, for a brief period, from business pursuits or 

 pleasures, to assemble together in a place hallowed by the life-work 

 of a great man who has just passed from amongst us — to build an altar 

 to his memory, and to burn thereon the incense of our gratitude and 

 admiration. 



And nowhere more fittingly than in the Royal Institution of 

 Great Britain can a tribute to the memory of the late Professor 

 Tyndall be paid, for not only was his scientific career co-extensive 

 with his connection with this Institution, but he found in it the 

 opportunities which made that career possible, and he gave back to 

 it the first and best fruits of his scientific labours. Tyndall con- 

 tributed many papers to the Royal Society and British Association ; 



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