502 General MontMij 3Ieeting. [June 14, 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING. 



Monday, June 14, 1897. 



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

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The following Vice-Presidents for the ensuing year were an- 

 nounced : — 



Sir Frederick Abel, Bart. K.C.B. D.C.L. LL.D. F.R.S. 



The Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, M.P. D.C.L. LL.D. F.R.S. 



William Crookes, Esq. F.R.S. 



Edward Fraukland, Esq. D.C.L. LL.D. F.R.S. 



Ludwig Mond, Esq. Ph.D. F.R.S. 



Basil Woodd Smith, Esq. F.R.A.S. F.S.A. 



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



Sir Frederick Bramwell, Bart. D.C.L. LL.D. F.R.S. Hon. Secretary. 



Tempest Anderson, M.D. B.Sc. 

 Samuel Pope, Esq. Q.C. 

 Major Clifford Probyn, 

 were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The following Address to the Queen was read, and it was moved 

 from the Chair, seconded by the Honorary Secretary, and carried by 

 acclamation, all present standing, 



" That this Address be approved and authorised to be signed by 

 His Grace the President on behalf of the Members : — 



To Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, 

 Patron of the Eoyal Institution of Great Britain. 



May it Please Your Majesty, 



We, the President and Members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, in 

 general meeting assembled, desire humbly to congratulate your Majesty on the 

 completion of the Sixtieth Year of your glorious and beneficent reign, and with 

 profound thankfulness to acknowledge the blessings which we, in common with 

 all classes of your subjects, have enjoyed under your rule, and more especially, the 

 freedom and encouragement given to those pursuits with which we, as a corpora- 

 tion, are concerned. 



Science, Arts, and Manufactures, which it is the object of our institution to 

 promote, have found in the serenity, which your just and gentle government has 

 conferred upon the country, the conditions most favourable to their growth, while 

 the ethical principles, which ought ever to sustain and direct these, have been 

 quickened by the virtues which Ijave adorned your throne. The extension of 

 education, and particularly of that technical education, the national importance 

 of which your late illustrious and ever lamented Consort was the first to recognise, 

 has favoured the diiFusion of natural knowledge, which again has multiplied 

 useful raeclianical inventions, and conduced to new applications of the mineral 

 and other productions of the country. 



