581st ORDIXARY GENERAL MEETING. 



HELD IN COMMITTEE ROOM B, THE CENTRAL HALL, 

 WESTMINSTER, ON MONDAY, JUNE 5th, 1916, 

 at 4.30 P.M. 



Colonel Chas. Edward Yate, C.S.I., C.M.G., M.P. for the 

 Melton Division of Leicestershire, took the Chair. 



The Minutes of the preceding Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The Secretary announced the election of Miss Caroline J. Crawford 

 and of Mrs. Marston as Associates of the Institute. 



The Secretary read the following letter* from the Rt. Hon. the 

 Secretary of State for War : — 



" War Office, Whitehall, S.W. 

 3rd June, 1916. 



" Lord Kitchener desires to thank Professor Hull for the card 

 of invitation which he was so good as to send him, but regrets 

 that his engagements will not permit of his being present at the 

 Central Hall, Westminster, on Monday, the 5th instant, on the 

 occasion of his lecture on ' The Tides.' 



" Professor Edward Hull, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S." 



The Chairman said that it gave him great pleasure to preside at a 

 Meeting of the Victoria Institute, of which he had been at one time an 

 Associate, until the pressure of other duties obliged him to retire. And 

 it was an especial pleasure to preside on the occasion of a lecture by his 

 old and valued friend, Professor Hull, whom he would now ask to address 

 them on the subject of " The Tides/' 



THE TIDAL WAVE ON THE OFF SIDE OF THE 

 EARTH FROM THE MOON. By Prof. Edward Hull, 

 LL.D., F.R.S. 



IT is remarkable that one of the most generally recognized 

 of the physical phenomena belonging to our globe — that of 

 the double tides — is still a subject under discussion, and that 

 we may say of it " tot homines qiiot sententiae." It is universally 

 recognized that the tidal wave which visits our coasts twice in 



* At the moment when this letter was read, Lord Kitchener had 

 already started on his last voyage. 



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