1896 ] General Monthly Meeting, 289 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, December 7, 1896. 



Sir James Ckichton-Beowne, M.D. LL.D. F.R.S. Treasurer and 

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Hon. and Eev. William Byron, 

 Sir Gervas Powell Glyn, Bart. 

 Alexander Scott, Esq. M.A. D.Sc. 

 Mrs. T. B. Sowerby, 

 Eev. Samuel A. Thompson- Yates, M.A. 



were elected Members of the Eoyal Institution. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned for the 

 following Donation to the Fund for the Promotion of Experimental 

 Eesearch at Low Temperatures : — 



The Duke of Northumberland, K.G. .. £200 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to Colonel 

 Coleridge Grove for a Bust of his father, the late Sir William Grove, 

 M.B.I, and also to Professor Dewar for a Marble Pedestal for the 

 Bust. 



The following Lecture arrangements were announced : — 



Christmas Lectures. 

 Professor Silvanus P. Thosipson, D.Sc. F.K.S. M.R.L Six Lectures 

 (adapted to a Juvenile Auditory) on Light, Visible and Invisible. On 

 Dec. 29 {Tuesday), Dec. 31, 1896;' Jan. 2, 5, 7, 9, 1897. 



Professor Augustus D. Waller, M.D. F.K.S. FuUerian Professor of Phy- 

 siology, R.I. Twelve Lectures on Animal Electricity. On Tuesdays, Jan. 19, 

 26, Feb. 2, 9, 16, 23, March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, April 6. 



Professor Henry A. Mieks, M.A. F.R.S. Three Lectures on Some Secrets 

 OF Crystals. On Thursdays, Jan. 21, 28, Feb. 4. 



J. W. Gregory, Esq. D.Sc. F.G.S. of the British Museum (Natural History). 

 Three Lectures on The Problems of Arctic Geology. On Thursdays, Feb. 11, 

 18, 25. 



Professor Percy Gardner, Litt.D. F.S.A. Professor of Classical ArchsBology 

 and Art in the University of Oxford. Three Lectures on Greek History and 

 Extant Monuments. On Thursdays, March 4, 11, 18. 



Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, M.A. F.R.S. F.S.A. F.G.S. Three Lectures 

 on The Rei-ation of Geology to History. 1. The Incoming of Man. 2. The 

 Frontier of History in Britain. 3. Roman Britain. On Thursdays, March 25, 

 April 1, 8. 



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