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coverer of new facts and new laws to witness their immediate utilisa- 

 tion. The ancients showed a perhaps unconscious sagacity when they 

 selected the olive, one of the slowest growing trees, as the symbol of 

 Minerva, the goddess of Arts and Industry. Nevertheless, I hold that 

 all careful honest research will ultimately, even though in an in- 

 direct manner, draw after it, as Bacon said, " whole troops of practical 

 ai)plications." 



[W. C] 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, April 7, 1879. 



Sir W. Frederick Pollock, Bart. M.A. Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



John James Aubertin, Esq. 

 Mrs. Walter F. Ball, 

 Henry Bruce Boswell, Esq. 

 Fitzwilliam Comyn, Esq. 

 Claudius Shirley Harris, Esq. 

 Thomas Herbert Sowerby, Esq. 

 were elected Members of the Eoyal Institution. 



The following Arrangements for the Lectures after Easter were 

 announced : — 



Ernst Pauer, Esq. — Three Lectures on Schubert, Mendelssohn, and 

 Schumann {with Musical Illustrations) ; on Tuesdays, April 22 to May 6. 



Professor Dewar, M.A. F.R.S. — Five Lectures on "Dissociation-" on 

 Thursdays, April 24 to May 29. 



H. H. Statham, Esq.— Four Lectures on the Leading Styles of Architecture 

 Historically and -^tthetically Considered; on Saturdays, April 26 to May 17. 



Professor ELarl Hillebeand. — Six Lectures on the Intellectual Movement of 

 Germany from the Middle of the Last to the Middle of the Present Century ; 

 on Tuesday, May 13; Mondays, May 19, 26, June 2; Tuesday, June 10; and 

 Thursday, June 12. 



John Robert Seeley, Esq. M.A. Professor of Modern History, Cambridge. 



Four Lectures : Suggestions to Students and Readers of History. On Tuesdays, 

 May 20, 27, June 3 ; and on Thursday, June 5. 



Professor Henry Morley. — Three Lectures on Swift. On Saturdays 

 IMay 24 to June 7. ' 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

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



FROM 



Accademia dei Lincei, Rome— Atti, Serie III. Transunti, Vol. III. Fasc. 3. 4to. 



1879. 

 Agricultural Society of England, lioyal—Jomna], Second Series, Vol. XV. Part 1. 



8vo. 1879. 



