1888.] Appropriation of the Government Grant. 



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The following Table shows the progress and present state of the 

 Society with respect to the number of Fellows : 



Account of the appropriation of the sum of 4,000 (the Govern- 

 ment Grant) annually voted by Parliament to the Royal 

 Society, to be employed in aiding the advancement of 

 Science (continued from Vol. XLIII, p. 205). 



1887-88. 







J. Murray, for an Examination of the Western Lochs of 

 Scotland 400 



W. G. Forster, for cost of a Seismograph to be used in a 

 Research on the laws which regulate Earthquake Motion .... 75 



F. R. Japp,for an Investigation of the Reactions of Ketones, 

 Diketones, and allied compounds 75 



Hon. R. Abercromby, for the Systematic Observation of 

 British Thunderstorms 25 



W. R. Dunstan, for the Investigation of the Reduction of 

 the Nitro- paraffins and Alkyl Nitrites as effected by Ferrous 

 Hydroxide 30 



J. Croll, for books and payment of a Secretary to aid in 

 completing a work on the fundamental principles which under- 

 lie the Doctrine of Evolution in its widest sense 25 



H. R. Mill, to discuss the Observations of Temperature made 

 by the Staff of the Scottish Marine Station in the Clyde-sea 

 area 100 



Dr. T. Lander Brunton, for Investigations on the connexion 

 between Chemical Constitution and Physiological Action .... 100 



Carried forward. . 830 



