1921] General Monthly Meeting 337 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Mod day, April 4, 1921. 



Sir James Reid, Bart., G.C.V.O. E.C.B. M.D. LL.D. F.R.C.P., 

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Samuel D. Bles, 



Stenton Thomas Covington, 



Mrs. Lancelot W. Dent, 



Brian G. Donne, 



Charles Godfrey, M.A. M.V.O. 



Commander A. C. Goolden, 



Arthur Mallalien, 



Mrs. William Marshall, 



Edmund W. T. L. Brewer Williams, J.P. D.L. 



Sir John Wormald, K.B.E. 



were elected Members. 



The Secretary reported the decease of the Rt. Hon. Lord Monlton 

 on March 9, 1921, 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 place on 

 record their sense of the great loss the Institution and the community have 

 sustained by the death of the Rt. Hon. Lord Moulton of Bank, Lord of 

 Appeal, K.C.B. G.B.E. LL.D. F.R.S., Commandeur de la Legion d'Honneur, 

 and other Foreign Orders. 



Lord Moulton had a distinguished University career, graduating at 

 St. John's, Cambridge, in 1868, with the two highest honours in the Mathe- 

 matical and Physical Departments, namely, Senior Wrangler and First 

 Smith's Prizeman. He was elected a Fellow and Lecturer of Christ's College, 

 Cambridge. Entering the Middle Temple in 1868, he was called to the Bar 

 in 1874, where he quickly achieved success. 



A Member of the Royal Institution for forty-four years, he occupied during 

 this period the Offices of Vice-President, Manager and Visitor. Two Friday 

 Evening Discourses were delivered by him in the years 1876-7, the first on 

 "Verification of Modern Scientific Methods," and the second, "Matter and 

 Ether." 



In association with William Spottiswoode, M.A. LL.D, F.R.S., who had 

 been for many years Treasurer of the Royal Institution, and who was subse- 

 quently promoted to the Presidency of the Royal Society, he conducted a 

 series of experimental enquiries on Electric Discharges in Rarefied Gases, 



