128 General Monthly Meeting [April 12 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, April 12, 1920. 



J. H. Balfour Browxe, K.C. D.L. J.P. LL.D.. 

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



F. W. Bain, CLE. 



Charles James Soutain Hancock, M.D. 

 Sir Leigh Hoskyns, Bart, J.P. 

 Mrs. Bayford Owen, 



Captain Charles Sampson, R.A.M.C. (T.F.). 

 Francis C. M. Welles, 

 Miss Zula Maud Woodhull, 

 were elected Members. 



The Chairman reported the decease of Mr. C. E. Groves, on 

 February 1, and the following Resolution, passed by the Managers 

 at their Meeting held this day, was unanimously adopted : — 



Resolved, That the Managers desire to record their sense of the great loss 

 sustained by the Institution by the death of Charles Edward Groves, F.R.S. 

 F.C.S. F.I.C. M.R.I. 



Mr. Groves was a Member of the Royal Institution for twenty-one years, 

 and always took a keen interest in its welfare. He was elected a Visitor 

 in 1905, and in 1906 was selected by the Committee of Visitors as their 

 Secretary. He held the Visitorial Secretaryship for six years, and sacrificed a 

 large amount of time and attention to the improvement of the structure and 

 maintenance of the internal condition of the building of the Royal Institu- 

 tion. He was a Student under the distinguished Professor Hofmann at the 

 Royal College of Chemistry. He became Senior Assistant to Dr. John 

 Stenhouse, F.R.S. , Chemist to the Mint and Lecturer on Chemistry at 

 St. Bartholomew's Hospital in 1882, and remained with him until his death. 

 For five years he took part with Dr. Stenhouse in the work of an external 

 Assayer to the Royal Mint, and was Collaborator in Research with him. He 

 was conjoint Author with Dr. Stenhouse of twelve important Papers in the 

 Scientific Journals, between 1875 and 1881, on the domain of Organic 

 Chemistry, dealing with the Phenols, Naphthalin, Resin and Orcin Deriva- 

 tives, and Colouring Matter from Lichens. He was appointed in 1882 

 Lecturer in Practical Chemistry to Guy's Hospital, becoming subsequently 

 Senior Lecturer in Chemistry and Lecturer in Dental Metallurgy ; and in 

 1885, Consulting Chemist to the Thames Conservancy. He was the Editor of 

 the journal of the Chemical Society from 1884 to 1899, and of several impor- 

 tant works, including "Organic Chemistry," in 1880; "Fuel," in 1889; and 

 " Groves' and Thorp's Chemical Technology." 



The Managers desire, on behalf of the Members, to express their deep 

 sympathy with his sisters in their bereavement. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

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



FROM 



The Secretary of State for India — Report of the Board of Scientific Advice, 



1918-19. 8vo. 1920. 

 Geological Survey Records, Vol. L. Part 4. 8vo. 1919. 

 Agricultural Journal, Vol. XV. Part 1. 8vo. 1920. 

 Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture : Botanical, Vol. X. Nos. 4-5 ; 



Chemical, Vol. V. No. 6. 8vo. 1919. 

 Report on Agriculture in India, 1918-19. Svo. 1920. 



