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The Managers further reported, That at their adjourned Meeting 

 on the 21st of March the following Resolutions were adopted : — 



Resolved, "That the Managers desh-e to record by this Eesolution the 

 expression of their deep regret that the state of Dr. Tyndall's health sliould 

 have rendered necessary the resignation of his position of Professor of Natural 

 Philosophy at the Koyal Institution, and that it should have compelled the 

 Managers to accept that resignation — and desire at the same time to record the 

 expression of their hope that the relief thus obtained from the arduous duties of 

 the Professorship will conduce to his speedy and complete recovery. 



" The Managers also desire that there should be recorded the expression of 

 their thorough appreciation of the unremitting and most valuable services which 

 during the long period of thirty-four years Dr. Tyndall has rendered to the Royal 

 Institution in carrying out the duties of his office — services which not only have 

 upheld and have advanced the position of the Royal Institution, but have 

 benefited science and the world at large." 



" The Managers having ascertained without doubt that Professor Tyndall 

 altogether declines to receive any pension or pecuniary testimonial in recognition 

 of his services to the Royal Institution, and that in parting from his long con- 

 nection with it he desires only to carry with him the friendly recollection and 

 goodwill of the Members," 



Resolved, " That this generous and disinterested refusal to accept any acknow- 

 ledgment of a pecuniary nature upon the occasion of his retirement cannot fail 

 to increase the feelings of regard and respect which must be entertained for 

 Professor Tyndall's devotion of so much of his life to the important researches 

 which have been prosecuted by him in the laboratories of the Institution, and for 

 the delivery of those eloquent lectures in its theatre which has done so much to 

 support its scientific renown and to increase its prosperity. The Managers, 

 therefore, under the before-mentioned circumstances of Dr. Tyndall's refusal to 

 accept any pension or pecuniary testimonial, resolved that some marked recogni- 

 tion of a permanent character should be given to the opinion entertained of the 

 great value of Professor Tyndall's labours now about to cease, and the Managers 

 trust that it may prove as agreeable to him as it will be honourable to the Institu- 

 tion, if he would kindly comply with a request which they recommend should 

 be made to him, to sit for his bust (in marble), to be placed in the house of the 

 Institution in perpetual memory of his relations with it, and the cost of which 

 should be defrayed by a vote from the general funds of the Institution, and in 

 order further to perpetuate and honour the name of Professor Tyndall in con- 

 nection with the Institution, the Managers recommend that one of the courses of 

 Lectures delivered annually in the Institution shall be called the Tyndall 

 Lectures." 



Resolved, " That the Honorary Secretary, in informing Dr. Tyndall of the 

 acceptance of his resignation, do send to him a copy of the foregoing Resolutions." 



The Managers further reported, That at their Meeting held this 

 day the following letter was read : 



Deae Sir FredeEICK BeAMWELL, Hind Head, 3rd April, 1887. 



I have halted in my reply to your letter of March 23rd, through eheer 

 inability to express the feeling which the action of the Managers, at their 

 meeting on the 21st, has called into life. 



And my reply must now be brief; for I hardly dare trust myself to dwell upon 

 the " Resolutions " which you have conveyed to me. Taken in connexion with 

 the severance of my life from the Royal institution, and with the flood of 

 memories liberated by the occasion, this plenteous kindness, this bounty of 

 friendship, this reward so much in excess of my merits, well-nigh unmans me. 



And, let me add, the noble fullness of style and expression, which I owe to 



