196 RECORD OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



1829. January 22. J. Guillemard. Gift of 100 to the Donation Fund. 

 1839. March 7. Sir Clifton Wintringham. Bequest of ,1,200 3 per cent. 

 . Consolidated Bank Annuities, for the annual award of a Silver Cup to 



the Author of the most satisfactory Experimental Examination of one 



of certain subjects (see p. 186). 

 1843. November 30. Edwin Hill Handley. Bequest of ,6,378 19.?. Founder 



of the Handley Fund (see p. 180). 

 1843. November 30. Thomas Botfield. Bequeathed 'such a sum of money, 



by way of donation, as would have been payable if he had been made 



a Life Member ' of the Royal Society. (60.) 

 1854. June 29. B. Oliveira. Gift of 50 for the Promotion of Science. 



1864. October 27. Beriah Botfield. Bequest of 70. 



1865. December 21. B. Oliveira. Bequest of ,4,000. reduced after 

 a chancery suit to 1,506 17*. Id. (Minutes, October 28, 1869). This 

 was applied to the construction of the telescope afterwards lent to 

 Dr. Huggins, since presented to the University of Cambridge. 



1869. April 22. Dr. John Davy, bequeathed the Service of Plate presented 

 to Sir Humphry Davy for the invention of the Safety Lamp, in fulfil- 

 ment of Sir H. Davy's intentions, to be melted down and sold, in order 

 from the proceeds to found a medal (see p. 177). It produced ,736 8*. 5d. 



1871. June 15. John Peter Gassiot. Securities representing 10,000 ' given 

 to the Royal Society upon trust, for the purpose of assisting in carrying 

 on and continuing magnetical and meteorological observations ... in 

 the Kew Observatory 1 (see pp. 179, 188). 



1873. October 30. E. H. Sterling. ' Donation of 100 to the funds of 

 the Society. 1 



1874. June 18. Sir Francis Ronalds. Bequest of 500 ' for the Augmenta- 

 tion of the Wollaston [Donation] Fund' (see p. 177). 



1874. October 29. Henry Dircks. Bequest of one-fourth of his residue, 

 amounting (see Minutes, May 18, 1876) to 878 12*. Wd. 



1875. November 30. Sir Charles Wheatstone. Bequest of 500 for the 

 Donation Fund, and several portraits. 



1876. February 17. T. J. Phillips Jodrell. Gift of 6,000 to be applied 

 in any manner 'most conducive to the encouragement, among our 

 countrymen, of original research in the Physical Sciences' (see p. 181). 



1877. (President's Address, Roy. Soc. Proc., vol. 26, p. 429.) A sum of 

 500 contributed anonymously by five Fellows to the Society's funds. 



1878. April 11. James Young. A donation of 1,000, 'for the general 

 purposes of the Society.' This donation was devoted to the 'Publication 

 Fund' (June 27, 1878), afterwards merged in the Fee Reduction Fund 

 (November 7, 1878). 



1879. January 16. Sir Joseph Whitworth. Gift of 2,000 to the Fee 

 Reduction Fund. 



