242 Appropriation of the Government Grant. [N"ov. 30, 



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. XL VIII, p. 486). 



18901891. 







Prof. Piazzi Smyth, for further Research in Spectroscopic 

 Measurement of Ultra Definition and Extreme Separation. ... 70 



E. H. Griffiths, for Apparatus required in a Re-determination 

 of the Value of Joule's Equivalent 50 



A. M. W. Downing, to determine the Orbit of the Minor 

 Planet Flora 20 



Dr. Edridge Green, to ascertain quantitatively the Percentage 

 of Loss of Ligh t in cases of Colour-blindness due to a Shortened 

 Spectrum 20 



H. L. Callendar, for the Manufacture of a Standard Platinum 

 Thermometer, and the Comparison of the same with an Air 

 Thermometer at High as well as Low Temperatures. , 80 



Prof. J. N. Lockyer, for Observations (chiefly Long Exposure 

 Photographs) of Nebula?, and of Groups III and V 125 



J. Joly, for Extension of his Research on the Specific Heats 

 of Gases at Constant Volume to Higher Pressures 40 



Prof. G. H. Darwin, to make an Abacus with Card Guide 

 Plates for the Reduction of Tidal Observations 50 



J. H. Gray, for a Determination of the Thermal Conductivity 

 of Metals.. 50 



Carried forward 505 



