xliv REPORT — 18G5. 



Synopsis of Grants of Money appropriated to Scientific Purposes by 

 the General Committee at the Birmingham Meeting in September 

 1865. The names of the Members who ivould be entitled to call on 

 the General Treasurer for the respective Grants are prefixed. 



Kew Observatory. £ s. J. 



Maintaining the Establishment of Kew Observatory 600 



Mathematics and Physics. 



Glaisher, Mr.— Lunar Committee 100 



Williamson, Prof.— Electrical Standards 100 



Glaisher, Mr. — Luminous Meteors and Aerolites 50 



Sykes, Col.— Balloon Experiments 100 



Robinson, Dr. — Sound under "Water (renewed) 30 



Glaisher, Mr.— British Rainfall 50 



Airy, Mr. — Reduction of Riimker Observations 150 



Chemistry. 



Fairlcy, Mr. — Polycyanides of Organic Radicals 20 



Matthiessen, Dr.— Chemical Constitution of Cast Iron (renewed) 50 



Geology. 



Lyell, Sir C— Kent's Hole Investigation 200 



Mitchell, Mr.— Alum Bay Eossil Leaf Bed 20 



Wright, Dr. E. P.— Kilkenny Coal-field 20 



Busk, Professor. — Maltese Caverns Explorations 30 



Murchison, Sir R. — Palestine Explorations 100 



Salter, Mr. J. W.— Lingnla Elags at St. David's 20 



Bryce, Mr. J. — Researches on Earthquakes in Scotland 25 



Zoology, Botany, and Physiology. 



Wright, Dr. E. P.— Irish Annelida 15 



Newton, Mr. — Didine Birds of Mascareen Islands 50 



Jeffreys, Mr.— Hebrides Coast Dredging 50 



Jeffreys, Mr. — Marine Fanna and Flora (Devon and Cornwall) 25 



Jeffreys, Mr.— Aberdeen and Banffshire Coast Dredging .... 25 



Scott, Mr.— Oyster Culture in the West of England 10 



Jeffreys, Mr. — Mersey Dredging 5 



Gray, Dr. J. E.— Oyster Culture 25 



Davis, Dr. Barnard.— Catalogue of Crania 50 



Norris, Dr. Richard. — Observations on Rigor Mortis 10 



Richardson, Dr. B. W. — Amyl Compounds 25 



Geography and Ethnology. 



Lubbock, Sir J.— Typical Crania (renewed) 50 



Statistics and Economic Science. 



Bowring, Sir J. — Metrical Committee 50 



Mechanics. 



Webster, Mr.— Patent Laws (renewed) 30 



Russell, J. Scott, Mr. — Resistance of Water to Floating Bodies 50 



Total "2135 



