1890.] Appropriation of the Government Grant. 4N7 





 Brought forward 4i!~> 



J. I. Plummer, for Reducing and Publishing Observations of 

 Eight Comets and for further Observations 50 



Profs. Riicker and Thorpe, for a further Magnetic Survey of 

 the United Kingdom 600 



Colour-vision Committee of the Royal Society 100 



J. B. Cohen, for a Research on the Constitution of the Com- 

 pounds of Ammonia with Sulphuretted Hydrogen 50 



W. H. Perkin, jun., for further Research on the Constitution 

 of the Alkaloid Berberin 50 



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

 Diketones, and Allied Compounds 75 



G. J. Burch and J. E. Marsh, for Continuation of their Re- 

 searches on Amine Vapours 50 



A. Smith, for a Research on the Synthesis and Properties of 

 1 : 3- and I : 4-Diketones 10 



S. Pickering, for an Investigation on the Nature of Solutions, 

 and the Law of the Freezing Points of Solutions 50 



Dr. F. S. Kipping, for an Investigation of the Action of 

 Phosphoric Anhydride on Fatty Acids , . 25 



A. P. Laurie, for Continuation of Researches on the Com- 

 position of Alloys 40 



Prof. W. R. Dunstan, for further Investigation of the Con- 

 nexion between the Chemical Constitution of certain Organic 

 Nitrites and their Physiological Action 50 



Dr. C. R. A. Wright, for further Researches on Ternary 

 Alloys 50 



T. R. Marshall, for a Research on the Constitution of 

 Diacetyl Tetramethylene Carboxylic Acid, and three other Re- 

 searches 15 



S. Ruhemann, for a Research on Mucic and Saccharic Acids 20 



G. S. Turpin, for a Research on the Ignition of Explosive 

 Gaseous Mixtures 50 



H. Gordon, for an Investigation of the Question whether 

 Direct Isomeric Change of Meta- into Para-compounds, or of 

 Ortho- into Meta-compounds, is possible in the Benzine Series 20 



Prof. Armstrong, for the Study of Naphthalene Derivatives 

 with the object of determining the Laws which govern the 

 Formation of Substitution Derivatives of Benzenoid Hydro- 

 carbons 100 



P. J. Hartog, for the Completion of a Thermochemical Re- 

 search on the Sulphides 50 



Carried forward 1,920 



