1879.] General Monthly Meeting. 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, December 1, 1879. 



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

 President, in tlie Chair. 



Miss Henrietta Maria Adair, 

 Edward Greenhill Amphlett, Esq. M.A. 

 Henry Fearnside, Esq. M.B. F.R.C.P. 

 Major Edward Smith Gordon, R.A. 

 Thomas Henry Sanderson, Esq. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The following Lecture Arrangements before Easter, 1880, wero 

 announced : — 



Christmas Lectures. 

 Professor Tyndall, D.C.L. F.R.S. — Six Lectures on Air and Water ; on 

 December 27 (Saturday), 30, 1879; Jan. 1, 3, 6, 8, 1880. 



Professor Edward A. Schafer, F.R.S. — Ten Lectures on The Physiology 

 OF Muscle ; on Tuesdays, Jan. 13 to March 16. 



H. Heathcote Statham, Esq. — Two Lectures on Modern Architecture 

 since the Renaissance ; on Thursdays, Jan. 15 and 22. 



Professor Dewar, M.A. F.R.S. — Eight Lectures on Recent Chemical 

 Progress ; on Tlmrsdays, Jan. 29 to Marcli 18. 



Professor T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S. — Three Lectures on Coal; on Saturdays, 

 Jan. 17. 24, 31. 



Professor Ernst Paueb. — Three Lectures on Handel, Sebastian Bach, and 

 Joseph Haydn. With Musical Illustrations. On Saturdays, Feb. 7, 14, 21. 



Four Lectures, on' History or Literature, on Saturdays, Feb. 28, Marcli 6, 

 13, 20. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

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



FROM 



Governor General of India : — 

 Geological Survey of India : 



Memoirs, Vol. XVI. Part 1. 8vo. 1879. 



Palseontologia Indica : Series II. Vol. I. 4 ; Series XIII. 1. fol. 1879. 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal — Proceedings, 1879, No. 7. 8vo. 

 Journal, Vol. XL VIII. Part 1, Nos. 1, 2. Part 2, No. 2. 8vo. 1879. 

 Description of New Lepidopterous Insects from the Collection of W. S. Atldn- 

 son. By W. C. Hewitson and F. Moore. Part 1. 4to. 1879. 

 Astronomical Society, Royal — Monthly Notices, Vol. XXX. No. 9. 8vo. 1879. 

 Brown, James F.Esq. F.C./S'.— Apparatus, Past and Present : Engravings. (Sheet I.) 

 1879. 



