RECORD OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



up, in which, after reciting the constitution and Regulations of the Fund, 

 they furnished a table of the five years' Grants, with the following totals for 

 die period : 



Total amount applied for, ,50,401. 



Amount granted for Personal Allowance, <7,800. 



Amount granted for Non-Personal Expenses, ,11,800. 



The report surest s that if unused balances, instead of reverting to the 



urv, 'could be reserved and kept in hand, provision might be made for 



larger purposes than those to which the Fund has hitherto been devoted ' ; 



and with respect to personal grants, while it does not suggest that these should 



itirely discontinued, it does not recommend 'the present method of 



administering them'. Some correspondence between the Treasury, the 



Committee of Council on Education, and the Royal Society ensued, and it 



:i, i.illy agreed (.March, 1882), (1) that the Grant of ,1,000, which had 



hitherto been provided under the Vote for Learned Societies, should be 



discontinued ; (;2) that the <4,000 which had for the previous five years been 



provided under the Vote for the Science and Art Department should be 



replaced by a like sum 'as a Grant in aid of the Royal Society'; (3) that this 



( i rant should be managed by a reconstituted Government Grant Committee, 



and should be 'primarily applicable to non-personal payments', but that the 



Committee should be 4 at liberty to recommend occasional personal payments 



from it, which, however, would only be made with the express sanction of the 



urv. obtained in every case'; (4) that accounts and vouchers of the 



lit me should be rendered as in the case of the Grant for Meteoro- 



il purposes, the money being issued by the Treasury 'only upon 



idence that previous grants had been spent to a sufficient 



extent, and that no excessive balance was being accumulated over a series 



In the correspondence concerning details which followed this general 



arrangement, the Council again insisted, as they had done in 1855, that the 



t was not a Grant to the Royal Society, but to Science. ' With regard 



to the title under which the Vote is proposed to be made,' wrote the President, 



iniich as the Society derives no pecuniary benefit from the Grant, but in 



administering it undertakes an onerous and difficult task, the President and 



Council would be glad if the terms could be so modified as to prevent any 



misapprehension with regard to this point on the part of the public.' The 



of the Treasury, in his reply, called attention to the fact that ' a Grant 



in '<: i ( i rant of which the detailed expenditure is not subject to the 



'let ailed appropriation as the expenditure of an ordinary Grant', and that 



this was * the reason for using tlie expression here'. Ultimately, in a Treasury 



''d April s. i was agreed that the estimate should be 



submitted to Parliament in the following terms : 



