]xvi REPORT — 1867. 



Synopsis of Grants of Money appj-ojmated to Scientific Purposes by 

 the General Committee at the Dundee Meeting in September 1867. 

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

 General Treasurer for the respective Grants are prefixed. 



Keiv Observatory. 



Maintaining tlie Establishment of Kew Observatory 600 



Mathematics and Physics. 



*Glaisher, Mr. — Lunar Committee 120 



Joule, Dr. — Eemeasurement of the Dynamical Equivalent of 



Heat SO 



*Glaisher, Mi-.— British Rainfall 50 



*Sj'kes, Colonel. — Balloon Committee (renewed) 50 



Thomson, Professor Sir W. — Tidal Observations 100 



Thomson, Professor Sir "W. — Underground Temperature .... 50 



*(Tlaisher, Mr. — Luminous Meteors 50 



Chemistry. 



*Anderson, Dr. — Synthesis of Organic Acids 60 



Oeology. 



*LyeU, Sir C, Bart. — Kent's Cavern Investigation 150 



Mitchell, Mr. W. S. — Leaf-beds of the Lower Bagshot series . . 50 



Duncan, Dr. P. M.— British Possil Corals 50 



Moore, Mr. C. — Veins containing Organic Remains in the 



Mountain Limestone 40 



Bryce, Dr. — Scottish Earthquakes . . 35 



*Woodward, Mr. H.— Fossil Crustacea (renewed) 25 



*Pliillips, Professor. — Secondary Reptiles, Pterodactyles, and 



Birds ■ 50 



Biology. 



Jeffreys, Mr. J. Gwjai. — British Marine Invertebrate Fauna. . 100 



Lubbock, Sir J., Bart. — The Record of the Progress of Zoology 100 

 Bate, Mr. C. Spence. — Fauna of the South Coast of Devon 



and Cornwall 30 



Busk, Mr. G. — Fossil Flora 25 



Lankester, Mr. E. Ray. — Investigation of Animal Substances 



with the Spectroscope 15 



Bennett, Dr. — Action of Mercury on the Secretion of Bile . . 25 



*Richardson, Dr. — Physiological Action of the Methyl Series . . 25 



Geography and Ethnology. 



Murchison, Sir R. I., Bart. — Greenland Exploration 100 



Statistics and, Economic Science. 

 *Bowring, Sir J, — Metrical Committee 50 



Mechanics. 

 *Russell, Mr. J. Scott. — Analysis of Reports on Steam-ship 



Performance 100 



*Fairbairu, Mr. W.— Manufacture of Iron and Steel 100 



* Reappointed. 



Total 2200 . 



