708 General Monthly Meeting. [Nov. 7, 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, November 7tli, 1881. 



George Busk, Esq. F.E.S. Treasurer and Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Edward Easton, Esq. M.I.C.E. 

 was elected a Member of the Eoyal Institution. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were given to the Secretary 

 of State for India for the present of ' The People of India, by J. F. 

 Watson and J. Kaye,' Volumes IIL-VIII. 



The Chairman announced that the Fullerian Professorship of 

 Physiology became vacant on the Ith of November ; and that the 

 Managers would proceed to the election of a Professor on the 5th of 

 December next. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

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



FROM 



The Governor General of I//(i<a— Geological Survey of India : 

 Records. Vol. XIV. Port 3. 8vo. 1881. 

 Memoirs : Vol XVI. Parts 2, 3. 4to. 1880. 



Palseontologia Iiidica: Series II. Vol. I. Parts 1-4. Series XI. Vol. II. Parts 

 1,2. Series II. XI. XII. Vol. III. fol. 1880-1. 

 The Secretary of State for India— J. Forbes Watson and John William Kaye. Tlie 



People of India (with Photographs). Vols. III.-VIII. 4to. 1868-75. 

 The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty — Greenwich Observations for 1879. 

 4to. 1881. 

 Cape Catalogue of Stars : 1834-40. 8vo. 1878. 



Catalogue of 12,441 Stars for 1880, from observations made at the Cape of Good 

 Hope during the years 1871-9. 4to. 1881. 

 Acade'mie des Sciences de VInstitut de France— Memoirea. Tome XLI. 2^ Se'rie. 

 4to. 1879. 

 Presentes par Divers Savants. 2^ Se'rie. Tome XXVI. 4to. 1878. 

 Accademia del Lincei, Reale, Roma — Atti, Scrie Terza: Transunti, Tome V. 



Faec. 14. 4to. 1881. 

 Actuaries, Institute of— Jomnal. No. 123. 8vo. 1881. 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences — Proceedings. Vol. XVI. Parts I and 2, 



Svo. 1881. 

 American Metrological Society — Proceedings. Vols. I. and II. 1873-79. Svo. 



New York, 1880. 

 American Philosophical S'oc/e/y— Transactions, Vol. XV. Part 3. 4to. 1881. 



Proceedings, Nos. 107, 108. Svo. 1880-1. 

 Antiquaries, Society of — Arclifcologia. Vol. XLVI. Part 2. 4to. 1881. 



