CHAPTER V 



THE ASSOCIATION AND RESEARCH: 

 KEW OBSERVATORY 



Grants for research Gifts to the Association Initiation of research 

 work Foundation of Kew Observatory The Observatory under the 

 Association Description of the Observatory, 1860 Later period of 

 the Association's control The National Physical Laboratory. 



GKANTS FOR RESEARCH 



IN order to furnish an easy, though not a complete, 

 view of the wide range of support accorded to 

 scientific research by the Association, we give in 

 Appendix I a classified list of all the investigations 

 upon which, from 1834 (when the first grant was 

 made) down to the close of the financial year 1920- 

 1921, money has been expended by the Association. 

 For convenience these investigations are classified, 

 as nearly as may be, under the headings of the 

 existing sections of the Association (with the exception 

 of the recently established section of Psychology), 

 although, of course, many of them belong to a period 

 before the whole of these sections were in existence. 

 And we have indicated that this list does not provide 

 a complete view ; it must be premised that the 

 Association has lent its countenance to a vast 

 additional amount of research upon which it has 

 not expended money in the way of assistance toward 

 the researches themselves ; and, further, that the 



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