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GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, November 7, 1887. 



Warren de la Rue, Esq. D.C.L. F.R.S. Manager and Vice-President, 



in the Chair. 



Edmund Gosse, Esq. M.A. 

 F. H. Lewis, Esq. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Managers reported that they had admitted Mr. Herbert 

 Taylor as an Annual Subscriber of the Royal Institution. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to Mr. 

 W. Resbury Few for his present of a large Photograph of the 

 Nebulae of Orion, the property of his late father, Mr. Charles 

 Few, M.B.I. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to Mr. 

 William Anderson, M.B.I. for his present of a Double Acting High 

 Vacuum Pump. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to the Rev. 

 John Macnaught, M.B.I. for his present of £50 for improvements in 

 the Lecture Theatre. 



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 Lords of the Admiralty — Greenwich Observations for 1885. 4to. 1887. 



Greenwich Spectroscopic and Photographic Kesults, 1885. 4to. 1887. 



Numerical Lunar Theory. By Sir G. B. Aiiy. 4to. 1886. 



Keport on Observations of the Transit of Venus, 1882. fol. 1887. 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia — Proceedings, 1887, Part 1. 8vo. 

 Accademia dei Lined, Reale, Roma — Atti della Classe di Scienze Morali, Storiche 

 e Filologiche— Serie 4% Vol. II. Parte 2^. 4to. 1886-7. 



Atti, Serie Quarta : Eendiconti. Vol. III. 1° Semestre, Fasc. 10-13 ; 2" Semestre, 

 Fasc. 1, 2, 3. Svo. 1887. 

 American Philosophical Society — Proceedings, No. 125. Svo. 1887. 

 Antiquaries, Society o/— Proceedings, Vol. XI. No. 3. Svo. 1887. 

 Ashburner, Charles A. Esq. (the Author) — The Geologic Distribution of Natural 

 Gas in the United States. Svo. 1886. 



The Geologic Relations of the Nantichoke Disaster. Svo. 1887. 

 Asiatic Society, Royal — Journal, Vol. XIX. Part 4. Svo. 1887. 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal — Journal, Vol. LVI. Part 1. No. 1. Svo. 1887. 



Proceedings, 1887, Nos. 2-5. Svo. 

 Asiatic Society, Royal {China Branch) — Journal, Vol. XXI. Nos. 5, 6. Svo. 1886. 

 Astronomical Society, Uoyal — Monthly Notices, Vol. XLVII. No. 8. Svo. 1887. 



