328 General Monthly Meeting, [March 1, 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, March 1, 1880. 

 Edwakd Frankland, Esq. D.C.L. F.R.S. &c. Manager, in the Chair. 



The following Letter was read : — 



u gjjj " Buckingham Palace, Feh. 5th, 1880. 



"His Royal Highness Prince Leopold begs you will intimate to the 

 Members of the Royal Institution his sense of the honour they have done him in 

 electing him a Member. Faithfully yours, 



" R. H. COLLINS, 



" Comptroller:' 



Forster Fitz-Gerald Arbuthnot, Esq. 



Richard Claude Belt, Esq. 



Shelford Bidwell, Esq. M.A. LL.B. 



James Crichton-Browne, Esq. M.D. LL.D. F.R.S.E. 



Henry G. Bunbury, Esq. 



Miss Isabella Clerk, 



Vicat Cole, Esq. A.R.A. 



Alfred Kingsford Coles, Esq. 



Frederick Thomas Jennings, Esq. 



Alfred Lloyd, Esq. B.A. F R.G.S. 



William Mansell MacCuUoch, Esq. M.D. 



Miss Louisa Millar, 



Miss Isabella Milne, 



Major H. C. Roberts, 



Isaac Seligman, Esq. 



Mrs. Isaac Seligman, 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The following Arrangements for the Lectures after Easter were 

 announced : — 



Professor Huxley, LL.D. F.R.S. — Two Lectures on Dogs, and the Problems 

 CONNECTED WITH THEM; ou Tuesdays, April 6, 13. 



Robert Henry Scott, Esq. M.A. F.R.S. Secretary to the Council of the 

 Meteorological OflSce. — Four Lectures on Wind and Weather; on Tuesdays, 

 April 20, 27, and May 4, 11. 



John Fiske, Esq, — Three Lectures on American Political Ideas viewed 

 from the standpoint of Universal History ; on Tuesdays, May 18, 25, and 

 June 1, 



Professor Tyndall, D.L.C. F.R.S. — Six Lectures on Light as a Mode of 

 Motion ; Theories of Colour ; on Thursdays, April 8 to May 13. 



T. W. Rhys Davids, Esq. — Three Lectures on the Sacred Books of the 

 Early Buddhists ; on Thursdays, May 20, 27, and June 3. 



