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A MEETING convened by the Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and the president of the Royal Society was held on Thursday, March 4, at the rooms of the Royal Society, to consider the question ofa memorial to the memory of Lord Rayleigh. After a preliminary statement by the president of the Royal Society announcing the purpose of the meeting, speeches in favour of the proposal to erect a memorial were made by Mr. A. J. Balfour,-Sir Charles Parsons, Dr, P. Giles (Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge), Sir Arthur Schuster, Sir Richard Glaze-brook, and Sir Joseph Larmor. It was agreed that a fundshould be raised for the purpose of placing a memorial, preferably a window, in Westminster Abbey. A general committee was appointed, as well as an executive committee, to consider details, and also the further question of raising a fund in memory of Lord Rayleigh, to be used for the promotion of research in some branch of science in which Lord Rayleigh was specially interested.