136 Record of the Royal Society. 



OTHER PUBLIC FUNCTIONS PERFORMED BY THE 

 ROYAL SOCIETY. 



1. Government Grant for Scientific Investigations. Administrators. 



For the History of this Grant see p. 158 ; for the Regulations 

 see 'Year-book/ p. 74. 



2. Kew Observatory, Lessees under the Crown and Trustees of an 



endowment by the late J. P. Gassiot for the purposes of the 

 Observatory. (See p. 137.) 



3. Lawes Agricultural Trust. Electors of four members of the 



Managing Committee. (See p. 155.) 



4. Meteorological Council. Nominators. 



The Council is the official descendant of the Meteorological Department 

 of the Board of Trade, the history of which is given in the Keport by the 

 Committee of Inquiry nominated by the Royal Society, the Board of Trade, 

 and the Admiralty respectively, which was printed and presented to 

 Parliament in 1866. This Department was superseded in 1867 by the 

 Meteorological Committee of the Royal Society. In 1877 the Committee 

 transferred their charge to the Meteorological Council as now constituted, 

 The Council is a paid body, and consists of a chairman and four members, 

 nominated by the President and Council of the Royal Society, and approved 

 by the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, with the Hydrographer of 

 the Admiralty as an official member. The following are the present 

 members : 



Lieufc.-General Strachey, R.E., F.R.S. (Chairman). 

 Mr. Alexander Buchan. 

 Professor G. H. Darwin, F.R.S. 

 Mr. F. Galton, F.R.S. 



Admiral W. J. L. Wharton, F.R.S., Hydrographer of the Admiralty. 

 Mr. R. H. Scott, F.R.S. (Secretary). 



5. Physick Garden of Chelsea. 



The history of the early connection of the Physick Garden with the 

 Royal Society will be found at p. 153. At present the Society has only a 

 reversionary interest in the garden. 



6. Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Visitors. 



The Royal Society were appointed visitors and directors in 1710, a 

 function which they continued to perform until the accession of King 

 William IV, when, by the new warrant then issued, the President and six of 

 the Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society were added to the list. The 

 following constitute the existing Board of Visitors : 



