1896.] 



General Monthly Meeting. 



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GENEKAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, June 1, 1896. 



Sir James Ckiohton-Browne, M.D. LL.D. F.R.S. Tr 

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



William Phipson Beale, Esq. Q.C. F.G.S. 



Miss Esther Bright, 



Edward Ball Knobel, Esq. Treas. K. A.S. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The following Address to the Right. Hon. Lord Kelvin was read 

 and adopted, and authorised to be signed by the President on behalf 

 of the Members : — 



" To the Eight Hon. Lord Kelvin, D.C.L. LL.D. F.R.S. F.R.S.E. Grand 

 Officer of the Legion of Honour, Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of 

 Glasgow, Manager and Vice-President, Royal Institution of Great Britain. 



" The Members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain beg leave to offer to 

 your Lordship their cordial congratulations on the occasion of the Jubilee of your 

 appointment to the Chair of Natural Philosophy in the University of Glasgow, 

 and desire to express their high appreciation of the conspicuous services you 

 liave rendered during your incumbency of that chair in the Extension and 

 Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge, which it is the main object of the Royal 

 Institution to promote. 



" Recognising as the Members of the Royal Institution do the incalculable 

 and far-reaching value of your researches and labours in connection with elec- 

 tricity, magnetism, the atmosphere, heat and vortex motion, and the immediate 

 practical utility of your ingenious inventions, in aiding further scientific investi- 

 gation and in enlarging and quickening human intercourse, they wish more 

 especially to acknowledge the benefits you have conferred on the Royal Institu- 

 tion by the admirable lectures which you have, from time to time, delivered 

 within its walls. Your first lecture, " On the Origin and Transformations of 

 Motive Power," was given on the 29th of February, 1856, when the late Sir 

 Henry Holland occupied the Chair ; and your last lecture, on " Isoperimetrical 

 Problems," was given on May I2th, 1893, when the chair was filled by Sir 

 Douglas Galton, K.C.B. 



"In the thirty-seven years intervening between these dates — a period of 

 intense and fruitful scientific activity — you have addressed the Members of the 

 Royal Institution fifteen times, your lectures having been as Mirrors and Recorders 

 in reflecting and measuring the advances achieved in mathematics and physics. 



" The Members of the Royal Institution rejoice to think that besides con- 

 tributing more than any man now living to the progress of Science, you have 

 likewise secured it a higher place in public estimation than it has hitherto 

 attained, and they earnestly hope that you will be long spared to wear the 

 honours which have been so deservedly conferred upon you." 



It was Resolved, That Sir Frederick Bramwell, Bart, and 

 Professor Dewar be appointed delegates from the Royal Institution 

 to present this Address. 



