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W. L. A. Bartlett Biirdett-Coutts, Esq. M.P. 



James J. Fellows, Esq. 



Uemy Parry Gilbey, Esq. 



Colonel George Edward Gouraud, 



Henry Arthur Hunt, Esq. 



Thomas Stuart Kennedy, Esq. J.P. 



Arthur Lucas, Esq. 



Major- General Eardley Maitland, C.B. R.A. 



Frederick J^chwann, Esq. 



Colonel William Brooke Thomson, 



Charles Wilson Vincent, Esq. F.R.S.E. F.C.S. F.I.C. 



E. W. Wallace, Esq. 



Ernest Watney, Esq. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The decease of Dr. Warren de la Eue, D.C.L. F.R.S. Manager 

 and Vice-President, on April 19th, was announced from the Chair. 



The following Resolution passed by the Managers at their 

 Meeting this day was read : — 



Besolved, "That the Managers of tlie Eoyal Institution of Great Britain 

 have with much sorrow to record their profouiid sense of the loss sustained by 

 the Institution, by themselves, and hy the wliole scientific world, in the decease 

 of their friend and colleague, Dr. Warren de la Eue, who had been a valuable 

 Member of the Institution for nearly thirty-eight years. 



" Dr. Warren de la Rue's high position in regard to science is universally 

 recognised. The fruits of his invaluable researches in the various departments of 

 Practical Astronomy, Solar and Lunar Physics, Celestial Photography, Electricity, 

 Chemistry, and Meteorology, are fully recorded in the ' Transactions ' of the Eoyal 

 Society, the Eoyal Astronomical Society, the Chemical Society, the Academy of 

 Sciences, Paris, and in many other Scientific Journals. 



"Dr. Warren de la Eue became a Member of the Eoyal Institution in 1851. 

 Previous to his election he was much interested in the objects of the Institution, 

 and zealously assisted Professor Faraday in his researches and lectures whenever 

 an opportunity presented itself. He was first elected a Manager in 1856, and 

 closely attended the meetings of his colleagues until the end of his life. In 

 1879 he became Honorary Secretary, and held that office till 1882. During his 

 long connection with the Eoyal Institution he was specially interested in the 

 affairs of the Laboratory, and was a liberal contributor to the Fund for the 

 Promotion of Experimental Eesearch, first started in 1863. He also frequently 

 presented valuable apparatus, and eagerly embraced every opportunity of munifi- 

 cently contributing towards the supply of whatever was needed by the Professors. 

 His discourse on ' The Phenomena of the Electric Discharge, with 14,000 Chloride 

 of Silver Cells,' delivered at the Eoyal Institution on January 21, 1881, will be 

 long remembered by those who had the good fortune to hear it and witness his 

 hrilliant experiments. Besides the great pleasure he derived from the prosecution 

 of his own researches, for which he received many well-merited Honours both at 

 home and abroad. Dr. de la Eue was happy in liberally aiding the labours of his 

 fellow-workers, and contributed invaluable services to the Eoyal Institution while 

 discharging the duties of Honorary Secretary and Manager and Vice-President. 

 His genial manner and unvaried courtesy endeared him to all with whom he 

 was personally connected, and his kindly presence will lonj^ be missed. 



