NATURE 



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THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1877 



THE ENDOWMENT OF RESEARCH 



WE are authorised to publish the accompanying list 

 of the sums to be paid by the Government, on the 

 recommendation of the Royal Society, during the present 

 year in aid of Scientific Research. 



We might well leave the list to speak for itself, but it 

 would be ungrateful not to point out that the Duke of 

 Richmond arid Lord Sandon have by their action, beyond 

 all doubt, inaugurated a new era in the scientific activity 

 of our country, and one which is sure to be fostered by 

 corporate bodies'and individuals now that the Govern- 

 ment has set so noteworthy an example. 



Personal Payments. 



Mr. J. A. Broun. — For Correction of the Errors in the 

 published Observations of the Colonial Magnetic Obser- 

 vatories . . . . . .150/. 



Dr. Joule. — For Experimental Investigations into the 

 Mechanical Equivalent of Heat . . . 200/. 



Prof. Parker. — For Assistance in Researches on the 

 Morphology of the Vertebrate Skeleton and the Relations 

 of the Nervous to the Skeletal Structure, chiefly in the 

 Head ....... 300/. 



Rev. W. H. Dallinger. — For Microscopic Investigations 

 of Monads, Bacteria, and other Low Forms of Life 100/. 



Rev. F. J. Blake. — For compiling and publishing a 

 " Synopsis of the British Fossil Cephalopoda" . 100/. 



Prof. A. H. Garrod. — For Aid in preparing for Publi- 

 cation an Exhaustive Treatise on the Anatomy of 

 Birds . . ... . . 100/. 



Dr. Murie. — For completing and publishing thiee Me- 

 moirs : — " Anatomy of the Kingfisher," 4to., with five 

 plates ; on " Extinct Sirenia," 410., with six plates ; " Os- 

 teology of the Birds of Paradise," folio, three plates 150/. 



Mr. H. Woodward. — For Continuation of Work on the 

 Fossil Crustacea, especially with reference to the Trilo- 

 bita and other Extinct Forms, and their Publication in the 

 Volumes of the Pateontographical Society . . 100/. 



Prof. Schorlemmer. — For Continuation of Researches into 

 (i) the Normal Paraffins, (2) Suberone, (3) Aurin . 200/. 



Dr. H. E. Armstrong. — For Continuation of Researches 

 into the Phenol Series, and into the Effect of Nitric Acid 

 on Metals ...... 300/. 



Profs. King and Rowney. — For Researches to Deter- 

 mine the Structural, Chemical, and Mineraloiical Cha- 

 racters of a Certain Group of Crystalline Rocks represented 

 by Ophite ...... 60/. 



Mr. W. J. Harrison.— Towards the Expense of collecting 

 and describing Specimens of the Rocks of Charnwood 

 Forest ...... 50/. 



Non-Personal Payments. 

 In aid of Apparatus, Materials, and Assistance. 



Dr. J. Kerr. — For aid in Electro-Optic and Magneto- 

 Optic Researches ..... 200/. 



Mr. J. E. H. Gordon. — For Experimental Measure- 

 ments of the Specific Inductive Capacity of Dielectrics 50/. 



Prof. Guthrie.— For Apparatus and Assistance in (i) the 

 Determination of the Latent Heats of the Cryohydrates 

 and the Vapour Tensions of Colloids ; and (2) the Exa- 

 mination of Heat Spectra and Radiant Heat by means of 

 varymg Electrical Resistance in Thin Wires . 150/. 



Mr. J. T. Bottomley. — To aid in carrying out a Series 

 of E.xperiments for determining the Conductivity for Heat 

 of Various Liquids and Solutions of Salts . . 100/. 



Sir William Thomson. — For Assistance and Materials 

 Vol, .XVI. — No, 398 



for a Continuation of Experiments on the Effects of Stress 

 in Magnetism ..... 100/. 



Mr. W. Crookes. — For Assistance in continuing his 

 Researches connected with " Repulsion resulting from 

 Radiation " . . . . . . 300/. 



Messrs. Ri.ickerand Thorpe. — For a Comparison of the 

 Air and Mercurial Thermometers . . . 50/. 



Mr. F. D. Brown. — For an Investigation of the Phy- 

 sical Properties, the Specific Gravity, Expansion by Heat, 

 and Vapour Tension, of the Homologous and Isomeric 

 Liquids of the CnH2n -f I Series . . . 100/. 



Prof Roscoe. — For Continuation and Extension of the 

 Experiments on the Self-registering Method of measuring 

 the Chemical Action of Light . . . looZ 



Sir William Thomson. — For Investigation and Analysis 

 of Tidal Observations and Periodic Changes of Sea 

 Level ...... 200/. 



Dr. J. B. Balfour. — For the Expense of Illustrations for 

 a " Monograph of the Pandanaceje" . . 50/. 



Mr. H. T. Stainton. — For Aid in publishing the" Zoolo- 

 logical Record " . . . . . 100/. 



Dr. J. G. M'Kendrick. — For Apparatus for a Research 

 into the Respiration of Fishes . . .75/. 



Prof. Gamgee. — For a more Complete Survey than has 

 yet been made of the Physiological Action of the Chemi- 

 cal Elements and their more Simple Compounds, with the 

 Object, in the first instance, of establishing a Physio- 

 logical Classification of the Elementary Bodies . 50/. 



Dr. Brunton. — For Researches into the Physiological 

 Action of the most important Compounds of Nitrogen, 

 and into the Action of certain Poisons, and for Appa- 

 ratus ....... 80/. 



Mr. E. A. Schafer. — To pay the Wages of an Assistant 

 to give Mechanical Aid in Histological and Embryological 

 Research ...... 50/. 



Dr. Burdon Sanderson. — For an Investigation of the 

 Normal Relation between the Activity of the Heat-pro- 

 ducing Processes, and the Temperature of the Body 70/. 



Prof. Schorlemmer, — For continuation of Researches into 

 (l) the Normal Paraffins, (2) Suberone, (3) Aurin . 100/. 



Mr. W. N. Hartley. —For Researches into the Photo- 

 graphic Spectra of Organic Substances, into the Phos- 

 phates of Cerium, the Conditions under which Liquid 

 Carbonic Acid is found in Rocks and Minerals, the 

 Double Salts of Cobalt and Nickel, and for other Investi- 

 gations, and for Assistance .... 100/. 



Dr. Burghardt. — For a Research into the Origin of the 

 Ores of Copper and (if possible) of Lead, their Mode of 

 Formation, and the Chemical connection (if any) between 

 the Ore and its Matrix . ... 50/. 



Prof. Church. — For a Research into the colouring 

 matters of Colein, of Red Beet, and for the Study of 

 Plant Chemistry ..... 50/. 



THE "CHALLENGER" COLLECTIONS 



THE preliminary steps have been taken for the com- 

 pletion of the great work of the Challenger, and the 

 vast collections made during the voyage are now being 

 distributed among experienced workers for determination 

 and description. 



The director of the scientific staff has been at great 

 pains in endeavouring to secure the services of men most 

 competent for the task, and we are sorry to see that some of 

 our English naturalists, and notably the president of the 

 Geological Society, have thought it necessary to remon- 

 strate against the course which the director has taken in 

 the selection of the men to whom he is about to entrust the 

 examination of the collections. We have already had occa- 

 sion to refer to what we felt obliged to characterise as an 

 unwarranted attack on Sir Wyville Thomson, and it is 



