KS2 RECORD OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



No. 16. Tin-: KI-X'K BKQUKST. 



In the vear 1711) a bequest of 1 } 500 was received from Robert Keck, F.R.S., 



who directed that the profits arising from it were 'to be bestowed on some one 



of tlu- Felloes, whom they shall appoint to carry on a foreign correspondence'. 



For main yean this bequest was merged in the general funds of the Society, 



and the proceeds applied towards the payment of the Foreign Secretary. In 



,ain made to appear as a separate trust fund, and 666 13s. 4d. 



>ls was allotted as the equivalent. This has, at the present time, been 



converted into I'iM'jO Midland Railway 2^ per cent. Debenture Stock, and the 



are annually paid to the Foreign Secretary, who now receives no other 



honorarium. 



No. 17. THE MACKINNON RKSKARCH STUDENTSHIP. 



I'nder the will of the late Sir William Mackinnon, Director-General of the 

 Mediral Department of the Army, the Society received, in 1897, a bequest of 

 the residue of his estate, subject to certain life annuities, upon trust, to be 

 applied to the foundation and endowment of such prizes or scholarships for 

 the special purpose of furthering Natural and Physical Science, including 

 Geology and Astronomy, and of furthering original research and investigation 

 ithology, as the Society may think best and most conducive to the pro- 

 motion of those sciences and of original discoveries therein ; such prizes and 

 scholarships to be called after the name of the testator. 



The capital of the trust in the hands of the Society consists of ,4,482 6s. 

 r cent. Consols, .X'1,000 Metropolitan 2 per cent. Stock, and <3,991 

 London and North-Western Railway 3 per cent. Debenture Stock. There are 

 at present two studentships of the annual value of 15Q 9 but the income will 

 hen, on the cessation of an annuity, < > 3,334 London and North- 

 West em Railway 3 per cent. Debenture Stock will be transferred to the 



ty. 



The regulations governing the award of the Studentship will be found in 

 book'. 



No. 18. THE ROSSK FUND. 



'I'h nail fund, invested in 119 18s. 6d. Bank of Ireland Stock, 



which was raised by the late Lord Rosse, F.R.S., for the maintenance of 



vat ions at Valencia Observatory. It was transferred to the 



in 11)10. The income is placed in the hands of the Meteoro- 



1 Oilier, who undertake to pay the amount over to an observer at 



ory, so long as the Gassiot Committee consider the 



; f " ( ' ay. The Council of the Royal Society are at 



\, it' the observation! as at present made are discontinued, to employ 



the income for adducing the science of terrestrial magnetism in Ireland. 



