SYNOPSIS OF GRANTS OF MONET. lxxV 



Synopsis of Grants of Money appropriated to Scientific Purposes 

 by the General Committee at the Sheffield Meeting in August 

 1879. The Names of the Members who are entitled to call on 

 the General Treasurer for the respective Grants are prefixed. 



A. — Mathematics and Physics. 



£ s. d. 



Lodge, Dr. — New Form of High Insulation Key 10 



Adams, Prof .—Standard of White Light 20 



Everett, Prof. — Underground Temperature 10 



Joule, Dr. — Determination of the Mechanical Equivalent of 



Heat 50 



Thomson, Sir W.— Elasticity of Wires 50 



Glaisher, Mr. — Luminous Meteors 30 



Darwin, Mr. G. H. — Lunar Disturbance of Gravity 30 



Sylvester, Prof. — Fundamental Invariants 50 



Perry, Mr. J.— Laws of Water Friction 20 O 



Ayrton, Mr. W. E. — Specific Inductive Capacity of Sprengel 



Vacuum 20 



Haughton, Rev. Prof.— Completion of Tables of Sun-heat 



Coefficients 50 



Forbes, Prof. G— Instrument for Detection of Fire-damp in 



Mines 10 ° ° 



Thomson, Mr. J. M. — Inductive Capacity of Crystals and 



Paraffines 25 ° °' 



B. — Chemistry. 



Dewar, Prof . — Spectrum Analysis 10 



Wallace, Dr. — Development of Light from Coal-gas 10 



C. — Geology. 



Duncan, Prof. P. M— Report on Carboniferous Polyzoa 10 



Adam, Prof. A. L.— Caves of South Ireland 10 



Seeley, Prof. — Viviparous Nature of Ichthyosaurus 10 



Evans, Mr. John. — Kent's Cavern Exploration 50 



Evans, Mr. John. — Geological Record 100 



Williamson, Prof. W. C— Miocene Flora of the Basalt of 



North Ireland 15 



Hull, Prof .—Underground Waters of Permian Formations 5 







Carried forward 595 



