1851.] OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION. : 69 
GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 
Monday, May 5. 
Wir Pore, Esa., M.A., F.R.S., Treasurer and Vice-President, 
in the Chair. 
The Secretary announced that the President had nominated the 
following Vice-Presidents for the ensuing year :— 
William Pole, Esq., Treasurer R.I. Rt. Hon. T. B. Macaulay. 
Sir John P. Boileau, Bt. The Lord Overstone. 
W. R. Hamilton, Esq. Professor Wheatstone. 
Admiral Sir George Sartorius, R.N. 
was admitted a Member of the Royal Institution. 
Wm. Ashton, Esq. The Lord Lovaine. 
George Chenevix, Esq. Hon. Henry A. Murray, Capt. 
George J. Eyre, Esq. R.N. 
John Fergus, Esq., M.P. Miss F. S. Solly. 
Alfred Hooper, Esq. Wm. Raikes Timins, Esq. 
were duly elected Members of the Royal Institution. 
William Thos. Brande, Esq. F.R.S L. & E. &c. was re-elected as 
Professor of Chemistry in the Royal Institution. 
The following Presents were announced, and the thanks of the 
Members ordered to be returned for the same ; — 
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in Ireland laid out under the direction of the Commissioners. fol. 1837. 
The Royal Geographical Sociely—Journal, Vol. XX. Part II. 8vo. 1851. 
Thos. Fisher, Esq. (the Author)—Dial of the Seasons; or a Portraiture of 
Nature. 12mo. Chart to Ditto (on Roller) Philadelphia. 1845. 
Edward Thornton, Esq. M.R.I. (the Author)—The History of the British Empire 
in India. 6 Vols. 8vo. 1851. 
The Hon. East India Company—Magnetical and Meteorological Observations 
made at Bombay in 1846. 4to. 1849. 
Magnetical Observations in 1847, Part I. 4to. 1850. 
The Commissioners in Lunacy—Reports to the Lord Chancellor, 1844 to 1850. 
W. R. Hamilton, Esq. F.R.S. M.R.L. &c.—Bibliotheca Grenvilliana; or Biblio- 
graphical Notices of Rare and Curious Books forming part of the Library of 
the Right Hon, Thos. Grenville, by J. T. Payne and Henry Foss. 3 Vols. 
8vo. 1842. : 
M. Faraday Esq. Full. Prof. Chem. R.I.—Relations des Expériences pour 
déterminer les principales Lois Physiques et les Données numériques qui 
entrent dans le calcul des Machines & Vapeur, par M, V. Regnault. Partie I. 
4to. Paris. 1847. 
