234 General Monthly Meeting [Nov. 1, 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 

 Monday, November 1, 1920. 



Sir James Crichtox-Browxe, J. P. M.D. LL.D. P.K.S., 

 Treasurer and Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Richard Birkett Brooks, 

 John Fitzgerald Dalton, 



were elected Members. 



The Secretary reported the decease of Professor Armand Gautier 

 on August 27, and of Professor John Perry on August 4, and the 

 following Resolutions, passed by the Managers at their Meeting held 

 this day, were read and unanimously adopted : — 



Resolved, That the Managers of the Eoyal Institution of Great Britain 

 desire to record their sense of the loss sustained by the Institution and the 

 World of Science by the death of Emile Justin Airnand Gautier, Commander 

 of the Legion of Honour, Grand Officer of the Crown of Italy, Membre de 

 l'lnstitut, Past President of the Academy of Sciences, the Academy of 

 Medicine and of the Chemical Society of France ; Fellow of the Royal 

 Academy of Lincei, Foreign Member of the Chemical Society of London, 

 and Honorary Member of the Royal Institution. 



Armand Gautier was one of the foremost French investigators in Bio- 

 chemistry. In 1872 he became Director of the first Laboratory of Biological 

 Chemistry in France, and in 1884 Professor of Medical Chemistry in the 

 Faculty of Medicine. His well-known investigations on the putrefaction of 

 proteins and in the products of Metabolism were epoch-making discoveries ; 

 his enquiries and studies on the detection of small quantities of poisonous 

 materials distributed in nature, such as arsenic, led to the knowledge of the 

 wide diffusion in nature of hitherto undetected bodies. 



He was the Author of Cours de Chimie (in 3 vols., viz. Vol. I.. Chimie 

 Minerale ; Vol. II., Chimie Organique ; Vol. III., Chimie Biologique); Des 

 Fermentations ; La Chimie de la Cellule Vivante ; Les Toxines Microbiennes 

 et Animales ; Lecons de Chimie Biologique Xormaleet Pathologique ; Chimie 

 appliquee a la Physiologie, a la Pathologie et l'Hygiene (2 vols., viz. Vol. I., 

 Chimie appliquee a A'Hygiene : Chimie appliquee a la Physiologie (1st part) ; 

 Vol. II., Chimie a la Pathologie); Le Cuivre et le Plomb daDS TAlimentation 

 et l'lndustrie au point de vue de L'Hygitne ; TAlimentation et les Regimes 

 chez l'Homme sain et chez les Malades ; Etudes generate des Eaux Potables ; 

 Sur las Sophistication et 1' Analyse des Vins ; Cent-vingt Exercices de Chimie 

 pratique ; Notices sur les Travaux Scientifiques de M. Armand Gautier ; 

 Expose des litres et Travaux Scientifiques de M. Armand Gautier ; Cin- 

 quantenaire de la Societe Chimique de France. His life work is embodied in 

 his original communications to scientific societies, amounting to over six 

 hundred. 



The Managers desire to express to Madame Gautier and the family their 

 sincere sympathy with them in their bereavement. 



