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AT a general monthly meeting of the members of the Royal Institution, held on Monday, the following letter from the Clerk of the Goldsmiths' Company, Sir Walter S. Prideaux, was read:—“I am directed to inform you that the attention of the Court of the Goldsmiths' Company having been drawn to the fact that the Royal Institution of Great Britain has lately celebrated its centenary, they have, in order to mark their sense of the importance of that event, been pleased to make to the Institution the further grant of 1000l., for the continuation and development of original research, and especially for the prosecution of further investigations of the properties of matter at temperatures approaching that of the absolute zero of temperature, I enclose a cheque for this amount, and I shall feel obliged to you to acknowledge the receipt.” The following resolution, proposed by the Lord Chancellor, and seconded by Sir A. Noble, was then passed:—“That the members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, in general meeting assembled, having been informed that the Court of the Goldsmiths' Company have made a donation of 1000l. to the funds of the Royal Institution in commemoration of its centenary, and in aid of the investigations which are being carried on in its laboratories into the properties of matter at low temperatures, desire to express to the Court their profound and grateful appreciation of this second munificent manifestation of their practical interest in the work of the Institution—a manifestation which has been made on this occasion at once reminiscent of past services to science and prescient of services yet to come.”