1922] General Monthly Meeting 483 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, February 6, 1922. 



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

 Treasurer and Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mrs. Wilfrid Harris, 

 Lady Hope, 

 Miss Adela Shenstone, 

 Miss Caroline H. White, 

 John Harold Woodward, 

 were elected Members. 



The Chairman announced the decease on December 11, 1921, of 

 the Right Hon. Lord Halsbury ; and on January 2, 1922, of 

 Professor G. L. Ciamician ; and the following Resolutions, passed by 

 the Managers at their Meeting held this day, were read and unani- 

 mously adopted : — 



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

 permanent record in their Minutes, at this their first Meeting since his death, 

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

 death of the Bight Hon. the Earl of Halsbury, Privy Councillor, D.C.L. 

 LL.D. F.R.S., late Lord Chancellor. Lord High Steward of the University of 

 Oxford. 



Lord Halsbury was an Annual Member of the Royal Institution for a 

 period of sixty years, and thus contributed to the maintenance of the objects 

 of the Royal Institution. During the many occasions he was Vice-President 

 and Manager, his profound legal attainments and his keen personal interest 

 in the welfare of the Institution made him a most revered Counsellor. 



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

 with the family in their bereavement. 



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

 record in their Minutes tbeir sense of the great loss the Institution has 

 sustained by the death of Giacomo Luigi Ciamician, Senator of the Kingdom 

 of Italy, Professor of Chemistry, Regia University, Bologna. 



Professor Ciamician was elected an Honorary Member in 1899. He 

 attended the celebration of the Centenary of the Royal Institution in that 

 year. 



The far-reaching results of Professor Ciamician's researches on the Pyrrol 

 Derivatives, the organic constituents of Plants, and Photochemistry are 

 embodied in a series of more than 130 important Memoirs published in the 

 Transactions of many Scientific Societies. He was the Author of " Chemical 

 Problems of the New Century" (1905); "Organic and Physiological 

 Chemistry " (1908) ; " Co-operation of the Sciences " (1911) ; Photochemistry 

 of the Future " (1912) ; and other works. 



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

 sympathy with the family in their bereavement. 



