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GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, April 1, 1889. 

 Sir James Crichton Browne, M.D. LL.D. F.R.S. Vice-President, in 



the Chair. 

 Septimus Felix Beevor, Esq. B.A. 

 Professor J. A. Fleming, M.A. D.Sc. 

 John Langston, Esq. J.P. F.R.C.S. 

 Major S. Flood Page, 

 were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to Joseph 

 Davis, Esq. for his present of an American " Forecast " Barometer. 



The following Arrangements for the Lectures after Easter were 

 announced : — 



Jean Paul Richter, Esq. Ph.D. — Three Lectures on The Italian Renais- 

 sance Painters : their associations, their education, and their employments (with 

 Illustrations) ; on Tuesdays, April 30, May 7, 14. 



Professor E. Ray Lankester, M.A. LL.D. F.R.S. — Four Lectures on Some 

 Recent Biological Discoveries; on Tuesdays, May 21, 28, June 4, 11. 



Eadweard MijybridCtE, Esq. of the University of Pennsylvania — Two Lec- 

 tures on The Science of Animal Locomotion in its Relation to Design in Art 

 (illustrated by the Zoopraxiscope) ; on Thursdays, May 2, 9. 



Professor Dew^ar, M.A. F.R.S. M.B.I. Fullerian Professor of Chemistry, 

 R.I. Jacksonian Professor of Natural Experimental Philosophy, Cambridge- 

 Five Experimental Lectures on Chemical Affinjty ; on Thursdays, May 16, 23 

 30, June 6, 13. 



Joseph Bennett, Esq. — Four Lectures on The Origin and Development of 

 Opera in England (with Musical Illustrations) ; on Saturdays, May 4, 11, 18, 25. 

 Professor W. Knight, LL.D. Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University 

 -)f St. Andrews — Three Lectures on I. The Classification op the Sciences, 

 Historical and Critical; II. Idealism and Experience, in Philosophy and 

 Literature ; III. Idealism and Experience, in Art and Life (the Tyndall 

 Lectures); on Saturdays, June 1, 8, 15. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on tlie 

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



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Hie Governor-General of India — Geological Survey of India : Records, Vol. XXI 



Part 4. 8vo. 1889. 

 \merican Pliilosophical Society — Proceedings, Vol. XXV. No. 128. 8vo. 1888, 

 irhuthnot, F. F. Esq. M.B.I. — The Beharistan (Abode of Spring). By Jtimi. 8vo' 

 Benares, 1887. 



The Gulistan (Rose Garden of Sadi). 8vo. Benares, 1888. 

 {static Society, Royal {China Branch) — Journal, Vol. XXIII. No. 1. 8vo. 1888. 

 istronomical Society, Royal — Monthly Notices, Vol. XLIX. No. 4. 8vo. 1889. 

 !an]:ers, Institute of — Journal, Vol. X. Part 3. 8vo. 1889. 

 latavia Observatory —Jiamf all in the East Indian Archipelago, 1887. 8vo. 1888. 



Magnetical and Meteorological Observations, Vols. VIII. and X. fol. 1888. 

 hitish Architects, Royal Institute of — Proceedings, 1888-9, Nos. 10, 11. 4to. 

 ■amhriflge Philosophical Society — Transactions, Vol. XIV. Part 3. 4to. 1889. 

 'hemicai Society — Journal for March, 1889. 8vo. 



Imrch, Professor A. H. M.A. F.B.S. M.B.I, {the Aiithor)— Guide to the Museum 

 of Roman Remains at Cirencester. 7th ed. 8vo. 1889. 



ivil Engineers' Institution — Minutes of Proceedings, Vol. XCV. 8vo. 1889, 

 linical Society — Transactions, Vol. XXI. 8vo. 1888. 



hix : Societe de Borda — Bulletin, Quatorzieme Annee, I'' Tremestre. 8vo. 1889. 



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