1897.] . General Monthly Meeting. * 511 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, November 1, 1897. 



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

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



John W. Woodall, Esq. M.A. D.L. J.P. 

 was elected a Member of the Royal Institution. 



The following letter was read : — 



Whitehall, 2.nd Juhj, 1897. 

 My Lord Duke, — I have liad the honour to lay before The Queeu the loyal 

 and dutiful address of the Eoyal Institution of Grt at Britain on the occasion of 

 Her Majesty attaining the sixtieth year of her reign, and I have to inform Your 

 Grace that Her Majesty was pleased to receive the same very graciously. 



I have the honour to be, 



My Lord Duke, 

 Your Grace's obedient servant, 



(Signed) M. W. Ridley. 

 His Grace The Duke of Northumberland, K.G., &c. 



The^ Special Thanks of the Members were returned to Mr. A. J. 

 Hipkins for his valuable present of the Collection of Tuning Forks 

 made by the late Dr. Alexander J. Ellis, F.R.S. 3I.BJ. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

 table, and the thanks of the Members returned for the same, viz. : — 



FOR 



TJie Governor- General of India — Geological Survey of India : Records, Vol. XXX. 



Parts 2, 3. 8vo. 1897. 

 The Lords of the Admiralty — Results of the Spectroscopic and Photographic 



Observations made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in 1894. 4to. 1897. 

 Greenwich Observations for 189-4. 4to. 1897. 

 Tlie British Museum {Natural if /sior?/)— Catalogue of the Fossil Cephalopoda, 



Part 3. By A. H. Ford and G. C. Crick. 8vo. 1897. 

 Catalogue of the African Plants collected by Dr. F. Welwitsch in 1853-61. 



Dicotyledons, Part 1. By W. P. Hiern. 8vo. 1896. 

 Catalogue of Tertiary Mollusca, Part 1. 



The Australian Tertiary Mollusca. By G. F. Harris. 8vo. 1897. 

 Guide to the Fossil Mammals and Birds. 8vo. 1896. 

 Guide to the Fossil Reptiles and Fishes. 8vo. 1896. 

 Guide to the Fos>il Invertebrates and Plants. 8vo. 1897. 

 Tlie Meteorological Office — Meteorological Observations at Stations of the Second 



Order for 1892 and 1893. 4to. 1896-97. 

 Monthly Cm-rent Charts for the Atlantic Ocean, fol. 1897. 

 Hourly Means for 1893. 4to. 1896. 

 Report of the International Meteorological Conference at Paris, 1896. 8vo. 



1897. 



