118 Record of the Royal Society. 



2000 3 per cent. Consols, to be called the Donation Fund, the 

 dividends to be applied in promoting experimental researches 

 (see p. 121). 



1828. December 11. Davies Gilbert. Gift of 1000 to the 

 Donation Fund. 



1829. January 22. J. Gnillemand. 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 Experi- 

 mental Examination of one of certain subjects (see p. 125.) 



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

 Founder of the Handley Fund (see p. 128). 



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 17s. Id. (Minutes, October 28, 

 1869). This was applied to the construction of the Telescope 

 afterwards lent to Dr. Huggins. 



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

 Plate presented to Sir Humphry Davy for the invention of 

 the Safety Lamp, in fulfilment of Sir H. Davy's intentions, to 

 be melted down and sold, in order from the proceeds to found 

 a medal (see p. 128). It produced 736 85. od. 



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 Observa- 

 tory " (seep. 128). 



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

 funds of the Society." 



1874. June 18. Sir Francis Ronalds. Bequest of 500 "for 

 the Augmentation of the Wollaston [Donation] Fund " (see 

 p. 121). 



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

 residue, amounting (see Minutes, May 18, 1876) to 878 

 125. IQd. 



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 



