1922] General Monthly Meeting 553 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, April 3, 1922. 



Sir James Reid, G.C.Y.O. K.C.B. M.D. LL.D. F.R.C.P., 



Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Arthur James Bryant, 

 Robert Henry Cole, M.D. 

 Jacob Lerrnan, 

 Frederick William Stevenson, 



were elected Members. 



The Chairman announced the decease on March 27, 1922, of 

 Professor P. A. Guye, and the following Resolution, passed by the 

 Managers at their Meeting held this day, was read and unanimously 

 adopted : — 



The Managers of the Royal Institution of Great Britain desire to place on 

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

 death of Philippe Auguste Guye, D.Sc. (Geneva and Paris), Professor of 

 Chemistry in the University of Geneva, Corresponding Member of the Insti- 

 tute of France, Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Society of London, an 

 Honorary Member of the Royal Institution. 



Professor Guye enriched the Science of Physical Chemistry by his masterly 

 researches on Stereochemistry ; Gaseous Density data in Organic and Inorganic 

 Chemistry; and the production of Synthetic Nitric Acid : recorded in numerous 

 Memoirs contributed to the Transactions of Learned Societies. He was the 

 Founder of the " Journal de Chimie Physique," which he edited from 1903 to 

 1922, and in which he published many of his Scientific Papers. 



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

 sympathy with the family in their bereavement. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

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



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