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investigations ; that a sum of 5,000, including the above-mentioned 

 1000, should be taken annually ; that the Royal Society should be 

 invited to aid Her Majesty's Government with their advice and 

 assistance in its appropriation and expenditure, and as to the sums to 

 be granted in each case, reporting annually to the Lords of the 

 Committee of Council on Education on the progress made and the 

 desirability or non-desirability of renewing the Grant ; and that this- 

 experiment should be tried for five years." The Lord President 

 further proposed that " the administration and expenditure of the 

 Grant, and accountability for it, should be vested in the Science and 

 Art Department, that all instruments purchased for investigations 

 should be left in its charge when no longer required," and that the 

 presidents of certain societies " should be ex-officio members of the 

 Government Grant Committee." 



After some correspondence, it was finally agreed that the Grant of 

 1000 should remain as before, and that a vote of 4000 should be 

 taken on the conditions expressed in the Lord President's letter. 



For five years these two Grants ran concurrently, the Grant of 

 1000 being known as " The Government Grant," and the Grant of 

 4000 as " The Government Fund." 



Four Sub-Committees were appointed to consider applications and 

 report upon them to the General Committee, namely: 



A. Mathematics, Physics, and Astronomy. 



B. Biology. 



C. Chemistry. 



D. General Purposes. 



The General Committee, which was now called the Government Fund 

 Committee, was constituted in the same way as before, with the addi- 

 tion of several more ex-officio members, the Presidents of the following* 

 Societies now forming the ex-officio list : The Royal Society of Edin- 

 burgh, Royal Irish Academy, Royal Astronomical Society, Mathe- 

 matical Society, Chemical Society, Linnean Society, Zoological 

 Society, Geological Society, Physical Society, Institution of Civil 

 Engineers, Institute of Mechanical Engineers, General Council of 

 Medical Education, Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of 

 Surgeons, and British Association. It was further agreed on Novem- 

 ber 30, 1877, that the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal 

 Irish Academy should each send an additional representative besides- 

 the President. The Committee, thus constituted, reported to the 

 Council, with whom lay the final decision upon the recommendations. 



On January 11, 1877, the Council received and adopted a code 

 of Regulations which had been drawn up by Sub- Committee .D. To 

 these the Council, on their own initiative, added the further Rule : 

 " That no proposition or application involving a Grant to an existing 



