Ixxxvi KBPOKT — 1887. 



Synopsis of Grants of Money appropriated to Scientific Pur- 

 poses by the General Committee at the Manchester Meeting 

 in August and September 1887. The Names of the Members 

 entitled to call on the General Treasurer for the respective 

 Grants are prefixed. 



Mathematics and Fhysics. 



£ s. 



*Brown, Professor Crum. — Ben Nevis Observatory 150 



*Foster, Professor G. Carey. — Electrical Standards 80 



* Stewart, Professor Balfour. — Magnetic Observations 15 



*Forbes, Professor G. — Standards of Ligbt 100 



* Armstrong, Professor. — Electrolysis 50 



*Stewart, Professor Balfour. — Solar Radiation 10 



Walker, General.— Differential Gravity Meters 10 



Ball, Sir R. S. — Uniform Nomenclature iu Mechanics 10 



Chemistry. 



*McLeod, Professor. — The Influence of the Silent Discharge 



of Electricity on Gases 10 



*Tilden, Professor. — Properties of Solutions 25 



Dewar, Professor.— Recording Water Analysis Results 10 



*Tilden, Professor. — Influence of Silicon on Steel 20 



Armstrong, Professor.— Methods of Teaching Chemistry ... 10 



*Tilden, Professor.— Isomeric Naphthalene Derivatives 25 



Russell, Dr. — Oxidation of Hy dracids in Sunlight 20 



Geology. 



Davis, Mr. J. W. — Sea Beach near Bridlington 20 



*Evans, Dr. J. — Geological Record 50 



*Etheridge, Mr. R. — ' Manure ' Gravels of Wexford 10 



* Grantham, Mr. R. B. — Erosion of Sea Coasts 15 



*PreRtvrich, Professor J. — Erratic Blocks 10 



*Hull, Professor E.— Circulation of Underground Waters ... 5 



Woodward, Dr. H.—Palseontographical Society Monographs 50 



*Etheridge, Mr. R. —Volcanic Phenomena of Japan 50 



Etheridge, Mr. R.— Pliocene Molluscan Fauna of St. Erth 50 

 *Williamson, Professor W. C. — Carboniferous Flora of Lanca- 

 shire and West Yorkshire 25 



*Bauerman, Mr. H. — Volcanic Phenomena of Vesuvius 20 



Carried forward £605 



* Reappointed. 



