1898.] General Monthly Meeting. 603 



"There is not, I regret to say, in the Royal Institution any worthy present- 

 ment of tlie late Proft ssor Tyndall. Yon liave, I believe, a really good bust of 

 liim, and I should be glad to know if you would feel disposed to aftord facilities 

 for having a replica of that made for the Royal Institution. 

 " With Idml regards, 



" Yours very faithfully, 

 (Signed) James Crichton-Browne." 



Moved, seconded, and carried unanimously, 



** That the Special Thanks of the Members of the Rojal Institution 

 of Gicat Britain, in General Meeting assembled, be returned to 

 Mrs, Tyndall, for her generous Donation of One Thousand Pounds 

 given in fulfilment of the wish of her husband, the late Professor 

 Tyndall, for the promotion of Science, which he did so much by his 

 life-long labours to advance, and in token of his s^mipathy with the 

 objects of the Royal Institution to which he rendered such signal 

 service." 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned for tlie 

 following donations to the Fund for the Promotion of Experimental 

 Kesearch at Low Temperatures : — 



Sir Frederick Abel, Bart £50 



Professor Dewar £100 



Sir Andrew Noble, K.C.B £100 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to the Rev. 

 William J. Packe for his present of an Electiic Lamj) and Fittings. 



It was announced from the Chair that the Managers had resolved, 

 at their Meeting held this day, that the Centenary of the Royal 

 Institution, which was founded in 1799, would be properly celebrated 

 next year. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

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



FOR 



Tlie Secretary of State for IiuUa — Annual Progress Report of the Arclieeological 

 Survey Circle, N.W.P. and Oudh, for year ending BOth June, 1897. fol. 

 Arclixologlcal Survey of India — 



Ijists of Antiquarian Remains in the Central Provinces and Berar. By 

 11. Cousins. 4to. 1897. 

 Tlie Governor -Gtneral of In'Ua — Geological Survey of India : Records, Yol. XXX. 



Part 4. 8vo. 1897. 

 Tlie Lords <f the Admiralty — 

 Annah of the Cape Observatory — 



Yol. III. The Cape Photugrnphic Durchmusternug for the Equinox, 1895. 



By D. Gill and J. C. Kapteyu. Part 1. 4to. 189G. 

 Vol.' YI. Solar Parallax from Heliometer Observations of Minor Planets. 



Vol. 1. 4to. 1897. 

 Vol. YII. Solar Parallax from Observations of Victoria and Sappho. Vol. II. 



4to. 1896. 

 Cape Meridian Observations, 1861-65. 8vo. 1837. 



Appendix to Cape Meridian Observations, 1890-91. (Star Correction Tables 

 by W. H. Finlay.) 4to. 1895. 



