1884.] Appropriation of the Government Grant. 457 



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. XXXVI, p. 83). 



1883-84. 







Council of the Royal Society, towards defraying the ex- 

 penses of the " Eclipse " Expedition 500 



Prof. Ramsay and Dr. Young, for apparatus to be used in 

 determining the truth of Prof. James Thomson's theory that 

 the vapour-pressure of a substance in the liquid state is higher 

 than that of the same substance when solid 15 



A Committee of the Royal Society, for the purpose of 

 photographing the Corona without an Eclipse, and for carry- 

 ing out other physical observations at some place of high 

 elevation and of easy access 250 



W. Lloyd Fox, to provide extra accommodation and instru- 

 ments for Magnetic Observations in a new Observatory about to 

 be built by the Roy aJ Polytechnic Society of Cornwall (granted 

 contingently on the Society being able to afford to the Council 

 of the Royal Society reasonable assurance of the continuance 

 of the observations) 300 



A. W. Hare, for materials and apparatus to be used in an 

 Investigation into the nature and causation of Septicaemia, 

 Gangrene, and Erysipelas 50 



Prof. Lankester, for payment of a skilled assistant to aid in 

 carrying on an investigation of the Comparative Histology of 

 the Arthropoda and Mollusca 200 



R. Milne Murray, for an investigation into the Physiology 

 of the Pregnant Uterus, with a view to determine (1) the 

 nature of the uterine contraction, (2) the innervation of the 

 uterus, (3) the effect of drugs on the pregnant uterus, (4) the 

 effect of uterine contraction on blood pressure, &c. (materials, 

 assistance, and apparatus not of permanent value) 50 



Dr. Gr. S. Woodhead, for materials and apparatus to aid in 

 an inquiry into the relations of micro-organisms to specific 

 infective diseases, with special reference to the modifying 

 influences which may be brought to act upon the mode and 

 rate of development of these organisms both within and with- 

 out the body 50 



Carried forward 1,415 



