1921] General Monthly Meeting 327 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, March 7, 1921. 



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



Treasurer and Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Sir Frank Benson, LL.D. 



Isaac William Bullen, 



Mrs. R. 0. Bussell, 



Miss E. Caird, 



Charles Harvey Combe, 



Hay ward Radcliffe Darlington, J.P. M.A. 



Paul Faraday. 



George J. Goldie, L.D.S. 



Major Gordon Home, 



Walter Gibb Klein, 



Alfred Goodman Levy, M.D. 



Miss Julia Lindley, 



Evan MacRury, M.A. 



Mrs. Alexander Ractivand, 



Sir Robert Robertson, K.B.E. F.R.S. 



Mark R. Trower, 



Miss Lucy Western, 



were elected Members. 



The Secretary reported the decease on February 17 of Professor 

 William Odling, and on February 21 of Professor L. 0. Miall, 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 Royal Institution desire to place on 

 record their sense of the great loss the Institution, and the Science of 

 Chemistry, have suffered by the death of William Odling, Bachelor of Medi- 

 cine, Waynflete Professor of Chemistry, Oxford, 1872-1912, Fellow of the 

 Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Past President of 

 the Chem cal Society and of the Institute of Chemistry. 



Professor Odling succeeded Faraday as Fullerian Professor of Chemistry of 

 the Royal Institution in 1868, during" Tyndall's occupancy of the Chair of 

 Natural Philosophy, and was a Member for nearly half a century. 



His valuable contributions to Chemistry are embodied in numerous com- 

 munications to the Memoirs of Scientific Societies, and his published works 

 include "Manual of Chemistry," "The Chemical Changes of Carbon," and 

 " Practical Chemistry." He delivered eleven courses of Day Lectures, 

 including three of the Christmas Courses of Juvenile Lectures originally 

 initiated by Faraday, and the following Friday Evening Discourses : — 



