KKCOH1) OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



: Society tor the advancement of science be not necessarily limited to the 



annual Grant of '1,000, when on any occasion special reasons maybe assigned 



iitional sum'. No such increase of the Grant was made, however, 



until nearly twenty years later, when (on April 29, 1876) a letter was received 



from tin- Lord President of the Council proposing 'that further aid should be 



flch by according permission to the Government Grant Committee 



ommend in certain cases the payment of personal allowances to gentlemen 



during tin- time they are engaged in their investigations ; that a sum of ^5,000, 



including the above-mentioned ^1,000, should be taken annually; that the 



i Society should be invited to aid Her Majesty's Government with their 



advice and a.-istance in its appropriation and expenditure, and as to the sums 



to In granted in each ease, reporting annually to the Lords of the Committee 



of Council on Kducation on the progress made and the desirability or non- 



(K-iial)ilitv of renewing the Grant; and that this experiment should be tried 



for li 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-afficio members of the Government Grant 



Committee '. 



After M>me correspondence, it was finally agreed that the Grant of ^1,000 

 >hould remain as before, and that a vote of ^4,000 should be taken on the 

 conditions expressed in the Lord President's letter. For five years these two 

 ( irant> ran concurrently, the Grant of ,1,000 being known as ' The Government 

 Grant \ and the Grant of =4,000 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, \\as constituted in the same way as before, with the addition of 



al more r,/-o///r/o members, the Presidents of the following societies 



forming the c>i-offici<> list: The Royal Society of Edinburgh, Royal Irish 



lin i\, Royal Astronomical Society, Mathematical Society, Chemical 



Limirati Society, Zoological Society, Geological Society, Physical 



ty, Institution of Civil Engineers, Institute of Mechanical Engineers, 



:al Council of Medical Education, Royal College of Physicians, Royal 



College of Surgeons, and the British Association. It was further agreed on 



: , that the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Irish 



Academy should each send an additional representative besides the President. 



Committee, thus co intituled, reported to the Council, with whom lay the 



final decision upon the recommendations. 



On .January 1 1, 1*77, the Council received and adopted a code of Regulations 

 which had been drawn up by the General Purposes Sub-Committee. To these 



