1920] General Monthly Meeting 7;; 



The Chairman reported that the following Letters had been 

 received from Honorary Members elected at the General Meeting 

 on December 1, 1919 : — 



Thboop College op Technology, 

 Pasadena, California. 



January 19, 1920. 

 Sir, 



I wish hereby to acknowledge the receipt of the diploma of the Royal 

 Institution, and to express to the Officers of that distinguished body my keen 

 appreciation of the honor which has been done me by election to its Honorary 

 Membership Such recognition from British Scientists I regard as the highest 

 honor which the Scientific World has to offer. 



Permit me to remain, 



Your very obedient Servant, 



R A. MILLIKAN. 



Department of Physics, 

 Clark University, Worcester, Mass. 

 February 17, 1920. 

 My dear Sir, 



Allow me to express rny very great appreciation of my election as 

 Honorary Member of the Pur al Institution. 



I am in receipt of the Diploma, together with the handbook of the Insti- 

 tution, which you were so kind as to send me. 



Very sincerely yours, 

 ARTHUR, GORDON WEBSTER. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to Mr. 

 Sidney CI. Brown, M.R.T., for his Donation of £12 to the General 

 Fund of the Institution. 



The Chairman announced the decease, on February 19, 1920, of 

 Dr. James Emerson Reynolds, and the following Resolution, passed 

 by the Managers at their Meeting held this day, was unanimously 

 adopted : — 



Resolved, That the Managers of the Royal Institution desire to record 

 their sense of the loss sustained by the Institution and Chemical Science, by 

 the death of Dr. James Emerson Reynolds, M.D. D.Sc.(Dub.) F.R.S. P.C.S., 

 Past-President of the Chemical Society, late Professor of Chemistry, Trinity 

 College, University of Dublin, and a late Manager of the Royal Institution. 



Dr. Emerson Reynolds was successively Keeper of the Minerals at the 

 National Museum of Dublin, Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the Dublin 

 Royal Society, and Professor of Chemistry to the Royal College of Surgeons 

 in Ireland. 



In 1869 he succeeded in the Isolation of Sulphur Urea, a most important 

 step in Organic Chemistry, owing to the large variety of new and interesting 

 compounds which resulted from its use as an agent of research. In 1871 he 

 discovered a new group of Colloid Bodies containing Mercury. 



After occupying the Chair of Chemistry in Trinity College, Dublin, for 

 twenty-eight years, he took up his residence in London, and was a Member 

 of the Royal institution, of which he was an earnest supporter for seventeen 

 years. 



During his long career he contributed over fifty Papers to learned Societies 



