452 General Monthly Meeting [Nov. 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 

 Monday, November 7, 1921. 



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



Treasurer and Vice-President, in the Chair. 



William Arthur Bond, M.A. M.D. B.Ch. D.P.H. 

 was elected a Member. 



The Chairman announced the decease on July 12 of Professor 

 G. Lippmann ; on September 28 of Mr. J. H. Balfour Browne ; and 

 on October 28 of the Right Hon. The Earl of Ducie ; 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 in their Minutes their sense of the irreparable loss sustained by the 

 Royal Institution and Science by the death of Professor Gabriel Lippmann, 

 Commander of the Legion of Honour, Doctor of Physical Science, Doctor of 

 Philosophy, Nobel Laureate, past President of the Academy of Sciences, Paris, 

 Professor of Experimental Physics in the Sorbonne, Member of the Bureau 

 des Longitudes, Honorary Member of the Royal Society of London and of the 

 Royal Institution of Great Britain. 



Professor Lippmann in 1894 made epoch-making researches in the field of 

 Electro-Capillary Action. He announced to the Academy in 1891 the discovery 

 of photography by means of the interference method and the reproduction of 

 Natural Colours in great variety. The Physical Laboratory of the Sorbonne 

 under his Directorship became the source of many and various original 

 discoveries in Physics. 



Professor Lippmann was the author of " Cours de Thermodynamique," 

 " Lemons d'Acoustique et d'Optique," and " Unites Electriques Absolues " ; and 

 delivered a Friday Evening Discourse in 1896 on " Colour Photography." He 

 contributed 200 papers on Physical Science. 



The Managers desire to express on behalf of the Members their sympathy 

 with Madame Lippmann and the family in their bereavement. 



Resolved, That the Managers of the Royal Institution desire to place on 

 record their profound sense of the great loss the Institution has sustained by 

 the death of John Hutton Balfour Browne, K.C. D.L. J. P., late Leader of the 

 Parliamentary Bar, Bencher, Middle Temple, Registrar and Secretary of the 

 Railway Commission, Member of many Government Commissions during the 

 War, Author of " Medical Jurisprudence and Insanity," and many works on 

 legal questions, "South Africa," "Essays: Critical and Political," "War 

 Problems," " Forty Years at the Bar," " Recollections : Literary and Political," 

 and numerous contributions to literary periodicals. 



Mr. Balfour Browne was a Member of the Royal Institution for thirty-three 

 years. As Vice-President and Manager he always took a keen interest in the 

 welfare of the Royal Institution, and rendered invaluable services by his advice 

 in its management. He delivered two Friday Evening Discourses, the first in 



