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GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, July 1, 1889. 

 William Ceookes, Esq. F.R.S. Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Robert Kaye Gray, Esq. 



James Mactear, Esq. F.R.S.E. F.C.S. 



William James Russell, Esq. Ph.D. F.R.S. Pres. C.S. 



James Miln Small, Esq. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The following Letter from Mrs. Henry Pollock was read : — 



"Hall Place, Cranlkigh, Guildford, 

 ''June nth, 1889. 

 " My Dear Sir Frederick, 



" Although you ask me not to acknowledge it, I cannot refrain from answer- 

 " ing your very kind letter, and thanking you and my husband's colleagues at the 

 " Eoyal Institution with all my heart for the warm expression of the regard and 

 " appreciation felt for him contained in the resolution and in your letter. The 

 "interest my husband felt in the Institution was very deep. It was his greatest 

 " pride and pleasure to be your Treasurer, and to do all he could to the last. I 

 " am rejoiced to know how afifectionately he was regarded by those with whom he 

 " worked and for whom he cared so much. The interest he felt in the Eoyal 

 " Institution was shared and always will be by my daughter and myself, and we 

 "are deeply grateful for the sympathy now^felt for us in our soitow. May I 

 " atsk you to convey my earnest thanks to the Board, and thanking you agaia 

 " most truly for your letter, 



" Believe me, 



" Very sincerely yours, 



"Amelia Pollock." 



Sir James Crichton Browne, M.D. LL.D. F.R.S. was elected 

 Treasurer of the Royal Institution in the room of Henry Pollock, 

 Esq. deceased. 



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 India — Geological Survey of India : Records, Yol. XXII. 



Part 2. 4to. 1889. 

 Accademia dei Lincei, Reale, Roma — Atti, Serie Quarta : Eendiconti. 1" Semes- 

 tre. Vol. V. Fasc. 4, 5. 8vo. 1889. 



Memorie. Vols. III. and IV. 4to. 1886-7. 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal— Journal, Vol. LVI. Part 2, No. 5; Vol. LVII. Part 2, 

 No. 4. 8vo. 1888-9. 



Proceedings, 1889, Parts 9, 10. 8vo. 

 Astronomical Society, Eoyal — Monthly Notices, Vol. XLIX. No. 7. 8vo. 1889. 

 Bankers, Institute of — Journal, Vol. X. Part 6. 8vo. 1889. 

 British Architects, Roi/al Institute o/— Proceedings, 1888-9, Nos. 15, 16. 4to. 

 California, University of — Publications, 1881-9. Svo. 

 Chemical Industry. Society o/— Journal, Vol. VIII. No. 5. Svo. 1889. 

 Chemical Society — Journal for June, 1889. 8vo. 

 Civil Engineers' Institution — Proceedings, Vol. XCVI. Svo. 18SS-9. 



