1922] General Monthly Meeting 625 



Councillor, K.C. J.P. D.L., Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 

 Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple, LL.D. of Glasgow and Aberdeen 

 Universities, Member of Parliament for Glasgow, Bridgeton Division, 1900-06, 

 and Central Division, 1909-10. 



Lord Scott Dickson was admitted a Member of the Faculty of Advocates 

 in 1877, and became Solicitor-General for Scotland in 1896, Lord Advocate 

 in 1903, and Dean of Faculty in 1908. 



A fitting recognition of his great eminence in the Legal World was shown 

 by his appointment as Head of the Second Division of the Scottish Law 

 Courts in 1915. 



He was a distinguished and valued Member of the Judicial Committee of 

 the Privy Council for hearing appeals from the Colonies ; his last visit to 

 London was in discharge of such duties, and his decease took place two days 

 after the conclusion of the Session on his return to Scotland. 



For twenty-seven years a Member of the Royal Institution, Lord Scott 

 Dickson served on the Board of Managers, and his counsel and advice were 

 always freely given for the welfare and progress of the Institution. 



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

 sympathy with Lady Scott Dickson and family in their bereavement. 



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

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

 of the Secretary and Vice-President, Colonel Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, 

 R.E. C.M.G. C.B.E. D.Sc. F.R.S. F.C.S., President of the Royal Astrono- 

 mical Society, 1913-1915. 



Colonel Grove-Hills was educated at Winchester and Woolwich, entered 

 the Royal Engineers in 1884, was made a Captain in 1893, and in the same 

 year became Assistant-Instructor in Chemistry and Photography at the School 

 of Military Engineering, Chatham. He was a Member of the Observing Staff 

 of the Solar Eclipse Expeditions to Africa (1893), Japan (1896), and India 

 (1898). He was made Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General at Headquarters in 

 1899, and Major in 1901. In 1902 he acted as Secretary to the Commission 

 on the delineation of the boundary between Chili and Argentina, and received 

 the honour of C.M.G. in recognition of his services. While in the service of 

 the Topographical Section of the General Staff at the War Office, Colonel 

 Grove-Hills gave whole-hearted support to Sir David Gill's project for 

 measuring a long arc of meridian from the South of Africa to Cairo. In 1903 

 he was allowed by the War Office to assist the Canadian Government in the 

 survey of that country, and in 1905 he retired from the Royal Engineers. 

 The Colonial Office appointed him to inspect and report upon the Geodetic 

 Survey Departments in British East Africa, Uganda and Ceylon in 1907, and 

 he continued survey work in Southern Nigeria in the following year. In the 

 same year he was elected President of the Geographical Section of the British 

 Association, when he delivered an address on " The Present and Future Work 

 of the Geographer." In 1914 he was a member of the Observing Staff of the 

 Solar Eclipse Expedition to Russia. On the outbreak of the War he rejoined 

 his regiment, and was appointed Assistant Chief Engineer, Eastern Command. 

 The same year he was made a Colonel, and in 1919 a Brigadier-General. For 

 his services during the war he was honoured with the C.B.E. in 1919. 



Colonel Grove-Hills was elected a Member of the Royal Institution in 1892, 

 having been proposed by his distinguished grandfather, Mr. Justice Grove, and 

 continued a Member for thirty years. He was elected to the Board of Visitors 

 in 1907, to the Managerial Board in 1914, and made Secretary and Vice- 

 President in 1915. In all these offices his zealous devotion to the Institution 

 was shown by his untiring efforts in promoting its objects and interests. He 

 delivered a Friday Evening Discourse in 1916, on "The Movements of the 

 Earth's Pole." 



On behalf of the Members, the Managers desire to express their sincere 

 sympathy with Mrs. Grove-Hills and the family in their bereavement. 



