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The following account of the appropriation of the sum of 5000, 

 placed by Her Majesty's Government, in five annual sums 

 of 1000 each, in the years 1850 to 1854 inclusive, at the 

 disposal of the Royal Society, to be employed in aiding the 

 promotion of Science in the United Kingdom, has been 

 presented to the Treasury, and is here printed for the in- 

 formation of the Fellows, by direction of the President and 

 Council. 



A. Appropriation of the Government Grant o/1000 in the year 1850. 



1. For the publication of the Observations made at the 

 Armagh (private) Observatory for the re-observation of 

 Bradley's Stars ; the work so published to be the property of 



Her Majesty's Government 350 



The printing of this work is still in progress, and will 

 shortly be completed. 



2. For the publication of Vol. I. of the Catalogue of 

 Ecliptic Stars observed at the Markree (private) Observatory ; 

 the work so published to be the property of Her Majesty's 

 Government 150 



This work has been printed ; and the greater part of 

 an impression of 500 copies presented, in the name of 

 the British Government, to public institutions at home 

 and abroad, and to individuals cultivating Astronomy 

 in this and other countries, under the direction of a 

 committee consisting of Sir John Herschel, the Astro- 

 nomer Royal, and the Superintendent of the Nautical 

 Almanack. The remainder of the impression is on sale 

 at a low price ; the proceeds to be credited to Her 

 Majesty's Government. 



3. To Charles Brooke, Esq., to be employed in the con- 

 struction of an instrument for the autographic registry of 

 the variations of the terrestrial magnetic force corrected for 



temperature 100 



This instrument was completed and exhibited in the 

 Great Industrial Exhibition for 1851. 



