1920] General Monthly Meeting 231 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 

 Monday, July 5, 1920. 



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



Treasurer and Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Ambrose Edmund Butler, J.P. M.Inst.Mech.E. 



Mrs. R. de l'Hopital, 



William Arthur Merrett Smart, M.R.C.S. L.R.C.P. B.Sc.(Lond.) 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Chairman announced that the Institution had received a 

 Legacy of £5000 from the late Dr. Rudolf Messel, who was a Member 

 for thirty years. 



The Chairman announced the decease of Professor Auguste 

 Righi, on June 8, and the following Resolution, passed by the 

 Managers at their Meeting held this day, was read and unanimously 

 adopted : — 



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

 their sense of the loss sustained by the Institution by the death of Auguste 

 Righi, Senator of tbe Kingdom of Italy ; Professor of Experimental Physics 

 in the University of Bologna ; Ph.D. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Lincei, 

 Rome ; Foreign Member of the Royal Society ; Honorary Member of the 

 Royal Institution ; recipient of the Matteucci "Medal (1890) ; and the Grand 

 Prize of 10,000 lire of the Academy of Lincei (1892) ; and many honours 

 conferred by scientific academies throughout the world. 



Auguste Righi was a pioneer in many branches of scientific progress during 

 the last fifty years, and opened a new era of physical investigation. His 

 name is associated with all the great questions of Natural Philosophy solved 

 in recent years. He invented a new electrical influence machine, the 

 Induction Electrometer, showing the composition of vibratory movements. 

 He made far-reaching discoveries in Electricity and Optics, analysed the 

 action of Heat and Magnetism on the Electrical Resistance of Bismuth, 

 along with the Rotation of the Lines of Force in the Magnetic Field. 



In later years, at the University of Bologna, from 1889 until the end of 

 his life, he carried on a series of most important researches on Photo-Electric 

 Dispersion, which constitute an epoch-making record in experimental enquiry. 

 He also made important contributions to the Zeeman Effect ; new develop- 

 ments in the Electron Theory ; and the Phenomena of Electric Waves. 



Author of many books published in Italy, one of which, entitled " Modern 

 Theory of Physical Phenomena," was translated into English. 



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

 sympathy with the family 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 



Aeronautical Engineers, Institute of— Journal, Vol. I. No. 1. Ito. 1920. 



Agricultural Society, Royal — Journal, Vol. LXXX. 8vo. 1919; 



American Academy of Arts and Sciences — Proceedings, Vol. LV. No. 4. 8vo. 1919. 



