IxxXVi REPORT — 1889. 



Synopsis of Grants of Money appropriated to Scientific Pur- 

 poses by the General Committee at the Neivcastle-upon-Tyne 



Meeting, in September, 1889. The Names of the Members 



entitled to call on the General Treasurer for the respective 

 Grants are prefixed. 



Mathematics and Physics. 



* Walker, General J. T.— Dififerential Gravity Meter 10 



Kerr, Dr. Jolin. — Electro-optics 50 



*Rayleigh, Lord. — Calculating Tables of certain Mathematical 



Functions 25 



*Tiiomson, Sir W.— Volcanic and Seismological Phenomena 



of Japan 75 



Cayley, Professor. — Pellian Equation Tables 15 



*Foster, Professor G. Carey, — Electrical Standards 50 



* Fitzgerald, Pi-ofessor. — Electrolysis 5 



Chemistry. 



*Tilden, Professor W. A. — Properties of Solutions 10 



*Roberts- Austen, Professor. — Establishing an International 



Standard for the Analysis of Ii'on and Steel 10 



*Tilden, Professor W. A. — Isomeric Naphthalene Derivatives 15 

 *M'Leod, Professor H. — The Influence of the Silent Discharge 



of Electricity on Oxygen and other Gases 5 



*Russell, Dr. W. J.— Methods of teaching Chemistry 10 



*Festing, General. — Absorption Spectra 30 



*Dewar, Professor. — Forming a Uniform System of record- 

 ing the Results of Water Analysis 10 



*Russell, Dr. W. J. — Oxidation of Hydracids in Sunlight ... 15 



Geology. 



*Prestwich, Professor J. — Erratic Blocks 10 



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



*Etheridge, Mr. R. — Fossil Phyllopoda of the Palasozoic 



Rocks 20 



*Whitaker, Mr. W.— Geological Record 100 



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



Evans, Dr. J. — Excavations at Old bury Hill 15 



Woodward, Dr. H. — Cretaceous Polyzoa 10 







Carried forward £510 



* Reappointed. 



