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weight of 561bs. The foreign Lepidoptera also figure largely, 

 and are naturally attractive from their beauty, and in 

 General Ramsay's cases from Nepaul, for their rarity. 

 This portion of the series, however, is chiefly valuable 

 for the illustrations of protective mimicry which it affords. 

 Admirable specimens of the leaf butterfly, Kallima 

 inachis, with the varying tints of their under surfaces, are 

 in Gen. Ramsay's collection, and Mr. Swanzy has a grand 

 series specially arranged of Diademas and Papiliones 

 mimicking — some in the females and some in both sexes 

 — the nauseous smelling members of the Danaidae and 

 Acraidae. Similar series are shown by Rev. J. A. Walker 

 and Mr. Weir. The extraordinary differences between 

 male and female in some butterflies is well illustrated by 

 Mr. Briggs' collection of Lycasnas. 



The remaining orders are in some instances admirably 

 illustrated, but by far fewer exhibitors. Dr. Powers' nearly 

 complete collections of British coleoptera and British 

 hemiptera, are among the best ever made ; and Mr. 

 Frederick Smith's hymenoptera, which supplied much of 

 the material for the British Museum Catalogue, and Mr. 

 Stevens' exhaustive collection of weevils, both the results 

 of forty years' work, are here exhibited. A most in- 

 structive series of Grecian hymenoptera, with their 

 galleries bored in briars, and some magnificent cole- 

 optera from Ashantee, containing beautiful examples 

 of Goliathtis Druriij complete the list of the more note- 

 worthy objects. Some important orders are thus without 

 special illustration here, but no doubt this will not be the 

 last as well as the first of such exhibitions ; and when it 

 comes round to the insects again we may hope to see as 

 complete sets of diptera or neuroptera as of other orders. It 

 would be a great advantage to students if such exhibitions 

 of limited classes could be periodically instituted by loan, 

 and Mr. Carrington certainly deserves our thanks for the 

 idea and its successful realisation. 



THE GOVERNMENT RESEARCH FUND 



THE following list of grants to be paid from the 

 Government Fund of 4,000/. on the recommenda- 

 tion of the Royal Society, during the present year, in aid 

 of scientific research, has been sent us for publication : — 



Not Personal. 



David Gill, 93, Wimpole Street, W.— To defray Expenses 

 connected with a Determination of the Solar Parallax by 



Observation of the Diurnal Parallax of Mars ^{^250 



Rev. Dr. Haughton, Trinity College Dublin.— For Aid in the 

 Numerical Reductions of the Tidal Observations made on 

 board the Discovery and Alert in the late Arctic Expedi- 



tion £lS 



Prof. Flc^ming Jenkin, 3, Great Stuart Street, Edmburgh.— 



For Experimental Investigations on Friction £'^0 



W. Chandler Roberts, Royal Mint, Tower HUl, E.— For 

 Researches on Metals and Alloys in a Molten State passing 



through Capillary Tubes £2^ 



J. Kerr, Free Church Training College, Glasgow. — For 

 Continuation of Electro-Optic and Magneto-Optic Re- 

 searches £v^ 



J. Norman Lockyer, 16, Penywern Road, South Kensington, 

 S. W. — For Continuation of Spectroscopic Researches 2^200 

 Dr. O. J. Lodge, University College, Gower Street, W.C. — 

 For Investigations into the Effect of Light on the residual 

 Charge of Dielectrics ; on the Conductivity of Hot Glass, and 

 other Transparent Conductors, on Electrolytic Conduction, 



and other Subjects £^'^ 



Thomas Stevenson, Hon. Sec. Scottish Meteorological Society, 

 General Post Office Buildings, Edinburgh. — For Aid in 

 carrying on a Simultaneous Series of Anemometrical Observa- 

 tions at different heights, and in sheltered and unsheltered 



situations £V^ 



W. Galloway, Cardiff.— For further Investigation of the Explo- 

 sive Properties of Mixtures of P"ire Damp and Coal Dust with 



Air £\oo 



Sir William Thomson, University College, Glasgow. — For Tidal 

 Investigations ;^loo 



For Experiments in Magnetisation of different Qualities of Iron, 

 Nickel, and Cobalt under varying Stresses and Tempera- 

 tures ;[^IOO 



J. E. H. Gordon, Pixholme, Dorkmg. — For Continuatioa of 

 Experimental Measurements of the Specific Inductive Capacity 

 of Dielectrics £^00 



H. Tomlinson, 36, Burghley Road, Highgate Road. — For Re- 

 searches on the Alteration of Thermal arid Electrical Conduc- 

 tivity produced by Magnetism, and on the Alteration of 

 Electrical Resistance produced in Wires by Stretching ^loo 



Prof. H. Alleyne Nicholson, University of St. Andrew's ; R. 

 Etheridge, jun.. Geological Survey Office, Edinburgh. — For 

 Aid in examining the Fauna of the Silurian Deposits of the 

 Girvan District, Ayrshire, and in publishing a Descriptive List 

 of the same ^75 



R. McLachlan, 39, Limes Grove, Lewisham — For Aid towards 

 the Expense of Publication of a Revision and Synopsis of 

 European Trichoptera £cfi 



C. Callaway, Wellington, Shropshire. — For Aid in working out 

 the so-called Eruptive Rocks of Shropshire, and in verifying 

 certain points in Local Geology ^^25 



H. T. Stainton, Mountsfield, Lewisham. — In Aid of the Publica- 

 tion Fund of the Zoological Record Association £^S'^ 



Dr. J. W. Dawson, McGill College, Montreal. — For Aid in 

 excavating Erect Trees in the Coal Formation of Nova Scotia, 

 in Beds where they are known to contain Reptilian and other 

 Remains ^50 



Dr. R. H. Traquair, Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh. — 

 For Aid in preparing and publishing a Monograph on the 

 Carboniferous Ganoid Fishes of Great Britain ^75 



W. Saville Kent, St. Helier's, Jersey. — To pay for Microscopical 

 Apparatus for the Further Prosecution of Investu^ations into 

 the Structure and Life- History of certain Lower Pro ozoa ,^50 



Dr. W. A. Brailey, 38, King's Road, Brownswood Park, Green 

 Lanes, N. — For Researches on the Causes determining the 

 Tension of the Globe of the Eye in Man and Animals, and on 

 the Physiological Influence on this Tension of such Substances 

 as Atropia, Daturin, Eserine, and Pilocarpine ^^25 



E. A. Schafer, University College, Gower Street. — For Pay- 

 ment of an Assistant in Continuing his Histological and Em- 

 bryological Investigations £<f> 



H. Woodward, 117, Beaufort Street, Chelsea. — For Continua- 

 tion of Work on the Fossil Crustacea, especially witli refer- 

 ence to the Trilobita and other Extinct Forms, and their 

 Publication in the Volumes of the Palasontographical So- 

 ciety £^S 



Prof. H. G. Seeley, 61, Adelaide Road, N.W.— For an 

 Examination of the Structure, Affinities, and Classification of 

 the Extinct Reptilia and Allied Animals ^75 



Dr. C. R. A. Wright, St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington.— For 

 Continuation of Researches on Certain Points in Chemical 

 Dynamics ; on the Determination of Chemical Affinity in 

 Terms of Electrical Magnitudes ; and on some of the lesser- 

 known Alkaloids ;^ioo 



Prof. C. Schorlemmer, Owens College, Manchester. — For Con- 

 tinuation of Researches into (i) The Normal Paraffins. 



(2) Suberone. {3) Aurin ;Cioo 



Prof. E. J. Mills, 234, East George Street, Glasgow. — For a 

 Research on Standard Industrial Curves ^100 



Personal. 



J. Allan Broun, 9, Abercom Place, St. John's Wood, N.W,, — 

 For Continuation of Correction of the Errors in the published 

 Observations of the Colonial Magnetic Observatories £1^0 



Dr. J. P. Joule, 12, Wardle Road, Sale, near Manchester. — For 

 an Exhaustive Inquiry into the Change which takes place in 

 the Freezing and Boding Points of Mercurial Thermometers 

 by long Exposure to those Temperatures £'2.00 



Prof. W. K. Parker, 36, Claverton Street, S. W. — For Assistance 

 in Continuation of Researches on the Morphology of the Ver- 

 tebrate Skeleton and the* Reladons of the Nervous to the 

 Skeletal Structures chiefly in the Head ;,^300 



Prof. A. H. Garrod, 10, Harley Street, W. — For Aid towards 

 Publication of the Second Fasciculus of an Exhaustive Trea- 

 tise on the Anatomy of Birds ;^ioo 



Rev. J. F. Blake, II, Gaud en Road, Clapham, S.W. — For Aid 

 in continuing the Publication of a Synopsis of British Fossil 

 Cephalopoda ^100 



Dr. W. A. Brailey, 38, King's Road, Brownswood Park, Green 

 Lanes, N.— For Researches on the Causes determinmg the 



