GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, Monday, December 6, 1869. SIR HENRY HOLLAND, Bart. M.D. D.C.L. F.R.S. President, George Henderson Gibb, Esq. William Harbottle, Esq. John Henderson, Esq. Henry Musgrave Musgrave, Esq. were elected Members of the Royal Institution. The following Lecture Arrangements for the ensuing Season were announced: : Professor TYNDALL, LL.D. F.R.S.-Six Lectures (adapted to a Juvenile Auditory), On Light. On December 28th, 30th, 1869; January 1st, 4th, 6th, 8th, 1870. Before Easter, 1870. Professor HUMPHRY, M.D. F.R.S.-Six Lectures, On the Architecture of ROBERT SCOTT, Esq. M.A. Director of the Meteorological Office. - Four DR. MASTERS. F.L.S.-Two Lectures, On Plant Life as contrasted with Professor ROLLESTON, M.D. F.R.S.-Four Lectures, Deductions from the Professor MAX MÜLLER, M.A. LL.D.-Four Lectures, An Introduction JOSEPH NORMAN LOCKYER, Esq. F.R.S.-Four Lectures, On the Sun. On Saturdays, March 19th to April 9th. After Easter, Professor BLACKIE. - Four Lectures, On the Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy. On Tuesdays, April 26th to May 17th. Professor TYNDALL, LL.D. F.R.S. - Seven Lectures, On Physics. On Thursdays, April 28th to June 9th. Professor ROBERT GRANT, LL.D. F.R.S.-Seven Lectures, On Astronomy. On Saturdays, April 30th to June 11th. Professor SEELEY.-Three Lectures, On History. On Tuesdays, May 24th, 31st, and June 7th. The PRESENTS received since the last Meeting were laid on the table, and the thanks of the Members returned for the same, viz. :— FROM Her Majesty's Government, through Sir R. I. Murchison-Memoirs of the Geological Memoirs on the Geology of the Midland Counties, Derbyshire, and Yorkshire. 3 parts. 8vo. 1869. Mineral Statistics for 1868. 8vo. 1869. Catalogue of Publications. 8vo. 1869. Andrews, J. R. Esq. M.R.I. (the Author)-Life of Oliver Cromwell to the Death of Asiatic Society of Bengal-Proceedings, 1869, No. 8. 8vo. Bavarian Academy of Science, Royal-Abhandlungen. Band X. Zweite Abtheilung. 4to. 1868. Denkschrift auf C. F. P. von Martius. 4to. 1869. Beobachtungen des Meteorologischen Observatoriums 1851-66. 8vo. 1868. Booth, Miss-Memoir of the late Henry Booth of Liverpool and Manchester British Museum Trustees-Guide to Second Vase Room. 8vo. 1869. Clinical Society-Transactions. Vol. II. 8vo. 1869. Devonshire Association-Report and Transactions. July, 1869. 8vo. Artizan for Nov. 1869. 4to. Athenæum for Nov. 1869. 4to. Chemical News for Nov. 1869. 4to. Engineer for Nov. 1869. fol. Horological Journal for Nov. 1869. 8vo. Journal of Gas-Lighting for Nov. 1869. 4to. Mechanics' Magazine for Nov. 1869. 8vo. Nature for Nov. 1869. 4to. Pharmaceutical Journal for Nov. 1869. 8vo. Photographic News for Nov. 1869. 4to. Practical Mechanics' Journal for Nov. 1869. 4to. Revue des Cours Scientifiques et Littéraires. Nov. 1869. 4to. Faraday, Mrs. and Dr. Bence Jones-Life and Letters of Faraday. By Dr. Bence Franklin Institute-Journals, Nos. 525, 526. 8vo. 1869. Genève, Société de Physique-Mémoires. Tome XX. Partie 1. 4to. 1869. Mechanical Engineers' Institution, Birmingham-Proceedings, Aug. 1869. 8vo. Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften-Monatsberichte, July, Aug. 8vo. 1869. Raumer, Friedrich von, Hon. M.R.I. (the Author)-Litterarischer Nachlass. 2 vol. 8vo. Berlin. 1869. Royal Society of London-Philosophical Transactions for 1869. Part I. 1869. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm-Handlingar. 1864-67. 4to. Lefnadsteckningar. Band I. Häfte I. 8vo. 1869. Symons, G. J. Esq. (the Author)-Monthly Meteorological Magazine, Nov. 1869. 8vo. Tuson, Richard, F.C.S. (the Author) — Pharmacopoeia of Veterinary Medicine. 16to. 1869. Williamson, Prof. A. W. F.R.S. (the Author)—On the Atomic Theory. (Chem. Soc. Journal, Sept. 1869.) 8vo. INDEX TO VOLUME V. ABEL, F. A., on some Applications of Abyssinia, or Ethiopia, 404. Animals most nearly intermediate be- Annual Meetings (1867), 144; (1868), Art, Good Taste in, 376. BARRETT, W., Experiments on Sound- Baker, Sir S. W., on Abyssinia, or Biot, Experiments of, 188. Blackie, J. S., on the Music of Speech Brain, its Unconscious Activity, 338. CARPENTER, W. B. on the Temperature Constitution and its relation to EARLY Mental Condition of Man, 83. Education, Public School, 26. Ethiopia, or Abyssinia, 404. "FARADAY as a Discoverer," by J. Tyn- Parentage: Introduction to the Early Researches: Magnetic Rota- "Faraday as a Discoverer "-continued. Laws of Electro-Chemical Decom- Origin of Power in the Voltaic Researches on Frictional Elec- Rest needed-Visit to Switzerland, Magnetization of Light, 233. Supplementary Remarks, 242. Atmospheric Magnetism, 245. Unity and Convertibility of Na- Illustrations of Character, 262. on Public School Education, 273. Flames, Sounding and Sensitive, 6. on the Source of Light in Lumin Fuller, Francis, Promoter of Crystal Chemistry, W. Odling, 424. GASES in Metals, 159. in Waters, 365. Gladstone, J. H., on some New Ex- Recent Discoveries on the Diffusion Good Taste in Art, 376. Greenwell, Rev. W., on the Yorkshire HAMLET, on, 295. Harcourt, A. Vernon, on the Rate at Heat of the Oxy-hydrogen Flame, 391. Herschel, A. S., on the Shooting Stars on latest Eclipse of the Sun (no History, Influence of the Imagination Holland, Sir Henry, Donations from, Huggins, W., on some further Results Hunt, T. Sterry, on the Chemistry of IMAGINATION, its Influence on History, JENKIN, H. C. Fleeming, on the Sub- Jervois, Colonel W. F. Drummond, ou the Coast Defences of England, 458. LABORATORY Fund abolished, 308. Lectures (1866-67), 4, 24; (1867–68), in Luminous Flames, its Source, Light, New Experiments on, 371. MAGNETO-Electric Machine presented Majendie, Captain V. D., on Military Mayow, Rev. M. W., on Hamlet, 295. Metals, Occlusion of Gases in, 159. Moncrieff, Captain A., on the Moncrieff NAVAL and Military Purposes, Applica- tion of Electricity to, 479. New England, 59. Perkin, W. H., on the newest Colouring Physical and Physiological Properties RATE at which Chemical Actions take Recovery of Submarine Cables, 574. on the Flamboyant Architecture Russell, J. Scott, Esq., on the Crystal Savage Thought in Modern Civilization, Scott, R. H., on the Work of the Sewage Contamination of Water, 360- Shooting Stars of the Years 1866-67, Simplest Organic Compounds, 598. Solar Physics made by means of the Sounding and Sensitive Flames, 6. Speech, Music of, in Greek and Latin, Storm Warnings, 539. Submersion and Recovery of Submarine Substances, Artificial Formation of, 378. Superstitions, Ancient and Modern, 87, 523. TALMUD, on the, 386. Telegraphic Weather Intelligence, 539. Tylor, E. B., on Traces of the Early |