1879.] General Monthly Mcctimj, 5 



WEEKLY EVENING MEETING, 



Friday, February 28, 1879. 



C. William Siembns, D.C.L. F.R.S. Vicc-Presidcut, in the Chair. 



Sir William Thomson, LL.D. F.U.S. 



The Sorting Demon of Maxwell, 



[Abstract deferred.] 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, March 3, 1879. 



The Duke of Northumberland, LL.D. D.C.L. the Lord Privy Seal, 

 President R.I. in the Chair. 



Charles William Bell, Esq. 



Arthur Brandreth, Esq. 



James T. Chance, Esq. 



William Crookes, Esq. F.R.S. 



Hugh Ernest Diamond, Esq. 



Stuart Forster, Esq. 



Charles Friend Hardy, Esq. 



Donald William Charles Hood, Esq. M.B. 



Charles Ed. Jerningham, Esq. 



Stephen Lanigan, Esq. B.A. 



Daniel Pidgeon, Esq. 



Montagu Somes Pilcher, Esq. B.A. 



Mrs. Edward Pollock, 



Rev. Thomas Cornish Pratt, B.D. 



Mrs. Edmund Round, 



Mrs. Gertrude Simonds, 



Mrs. John Singleton, 



John Alexander Swanston, Esq. 



Mrs. Michael Wills, 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Thanks of the Members were given to Professor A. Graham 

 Bell for his Present of a Pair of Telei)honefi. 



