1888.] Appropriation of the Government Grant. 71 



Brought forward 2,675 



G. J. Symons, for completing the Collection of Records of 

 British Rainfall during the 17th and 18th Centuries 50 



P. F. Frankland, for Payment of an Assistant in a Research 

 on the Chemical Changes brought about by Micro-organisms. . 50 



A. J. Herbertson and A. Rankin, for obtaining Photographs 

 of Phenomena seen at Ben Nevis Observatory 25 



Dr. Armstrong, for a Committee, for a Determination for 

 certain solutions of the Variation in Electrical Resistance with 

 concentration at different Temperatures 150 



H. B. Dixon, for a Research on the Rate of Explosion of 

 Cyanogen, Marsh-gas, Ethylene and Acetylene, with Oxygen 

 and Diluents, and two other Researches 100 



C. R. Alder Wright, for a Research on certain Alloys 50 



C. A. Ballance and S. G. Shattock, for a Research on the 

 Pathology of Cancer 50 



Joseph Thomson, for an Expedition to the Atlas Mountains 

 and the Southern Provinces of Morocco ] 00 



A. C. Haddon, for an Investigation of the Fauna, Structure, 

 and Mode of Formation of the Coral Reefs in Torres Straits . . 300 



J. Beard, for Researches on Comparative Vertebrate Mor- 

 phology, and especially on Ganoid Development 200 



T. W. Bridge, for Investigating the Structure of the Air- 

 bladder in certain Teleostean Fishes 25 



A Committee, for continuation of Mr. Rattray's Monograph 

 of the Diatomacese 100 



R. Kidstoo, for continuation of his Investigations into the 

 Distribution of the Carboniferous Flora 40 



West Indies Fauna and Flora Committee, for further aid in 

 sending a Collector to obtain Botanical and Zoological Speci- 

 mens in the less known West Indian Islands 100 



E. A. Schafer, for further payment of an Assistant to aid in 

 prosecuting a Research into the functions of the Nervous 

 System, especially of the Cerebral Cortex 50 



W. F. Denning, for further observation of Shooting Stars 

 and their Radiant Points 30 



W. K. Parker, for continuation of Researches into the Mor- 

 phology of the Vertebrata 150 



T. R. Jones, for further Elucidation of the Fossil 

 Ostracoda 25 



W. E. Hoyle, to complete the Anatomical Investigation of 

 the Cephalopoda collected by the " Challenger " 100 



4,370 



