BENEFACTORS OF THE SOCIETY 199 



by providing rewards for new discoveries, and pecuniary assistance (in- 

 cluding scholarships) to persons pursuing scientific investigations, and 

 in supplying apparatus and appliances for Laboratories and Observatories, 

 and, so far as consistent with the Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act, 

 1888, or other similar provisions, in improving existing or erecting new 

 Laboratories and Observatories, and in such other manner as the Royal 

 Society shall decide to be best calculated to promote Scientific Research. 

 And also in providing so far and in such amounts as the Council of the 

 Royal Society shall from time to time determine for the publication and 

 circulation of the reports and papers communicated to the said Society, 

 and for the preparation and publication of Catalogues and Indexes of 

 Scientific Literature which the Royal Society may have undertaken or may 

 in the future undertake. 11 



1909. November. Anonymous. A former benefactor, not a Fellow, gave 

 ,^500, * with the usual anonymity, for scientific purposes under the aegis of 

 the Royal Society. 1 



1909. December. Major Daniels. Gift of dPIOO for the scientific purposes 

 of the Society. 



1911. May. Professor A. Schuster, F.R.S. Gift of J 1,000 for the purposes 

 of the Fee Reduction Fund. 



