1921] General Monthly Meeting 453 



1911 on " Water Supply," and the second on " The Brontes : A Hundred Years 

 After," in 1917. 



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

 with Mrs. Balfour Browne and the family in their bereavement. 



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

 desire to place on record their profound sense ( of the great loss the Institution has 

 sustained by the death of the Right Honourable The Earl of Ducie, G.C.V.O. 

 P.C. F.R.S., Lord Warden of the Stanneries, President of Clifton College. 



The Earl of Ducie was the oldest Member of the Royal Institution, his 

 Membership embracing a period of seventy years. The Earl of Ducie continued 

 his Annual Subscriptions for seventy years, without compounding as a Life 

 Member ; and by this means gave his support to the objects of the Royal 

 Institution, which, from its foundation, has been dependent largely upon the 

 aid given by Members of the Peerage. The Earl of Ducie was a Visitor in 

 1854 and a Manager in 1862. 



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

 with his family in their bereavement. 



The Chairman declared in the terms of the Bye-Laws. Chapter 4, 

 Article 2, That there was a vacancy in the Office of Manager through 

 the decease of J. H. Balfonr-Browne, K.C., and at the next General 

 Meeting on December 5, 1921, the vacancy will be filled in accord- 

 ance with the said Bye-Law. 



The Chairman reported That the President, His Grace the Duke 

 of Northumberland, occupied the Chair at the last Friday Evening 

 Discourse of the Season on June 17, 1921, and thereafter at the 

 request of the Members presented to Sir James and Lady Dewar an 

 antique Silver Cup as a tribute of respect from the Members of the 

 Royal Institution in anticipation of their Golden Wedding on 

 August 8, 1921. 



Resolved, now that the Golden Wedding has taken place, the announce- 

 ment be formally reported to the Members at the General Meeting to be held 

 this day. 



Resolved, That the Speech of the President, His Grace the Duke of 

 Northumberland, on the occasion and the reply of Sir James Dewar be printed 

 for the use of the Members and be subsequently incorporated in a number of 

 the Proceedings. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to Mrs. 

 Williams (Granddaughter of Thomas Harrison, F.R.S., Sec. B.I. 

 1813-24) for her Presentation of Personal Xotes of Davy's Lectures 

 at the Royal Institution made by Thomas Harrison in 1808-9, also 

 Classical Works of Cicero, Horace, Hippocrates, etc., and Print of 

 Streatham Park, formerly in his possession. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

 table, and the thanks of the Members returned for the same, viz. : — 



FROM 



The Secretary of State for India — Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa : 

 Memoirs : Chemical Series, Vol. V. No. 9, Vol. VI. No. 3. Svo. 1921. 

 Bulletin, Nos. 96, 116, 118. 8vo. 1921. 

 Agricultural Journal, Vol. XVI. Parts 3-5. 8vo. 1921. 

 English-Tibetan Colloquial Dictionary. By C. A. Bell. 2nd Edition. 8vo. 1920. 



