XXXvVil 
THE’ CAIRD: FUND: 
An unconditional gift of £10,000 was made to the Association at the 
Dundee Meeting, 1912, by Mr. (afterwards Sir) J. K. Caird, LL.D., of 
Dundee. 
The Council, in its report to the General Committee at the Birming- 
ham Meeting, made certain recommendations as to the administration 
of this Fund. These recommendations were adopted, with the Report, 
by the General Committee at its meeting on September 10, 1913. 
The following allocations have been made from the Fund by the 
Council to September 1921 :— 
Naples Zoological Station Committee (p. xxxiii)—£50 (1912-13) ; 
£100 (1913-14) ; £100 annually in future, subject to the adoption of 
the Committee’s report (reduced to £50 during war; suspended, 
1920-21, pending approval by Council of Committee’s report on future 
control of the Station, etc.). 
Seismology Committee (p. xxxi).—£100 (1913-14) ; £100 annually in 
future, subject to the adoption of the Committee’s report. 
Radiotelegraphic Committee (p. xxxii).—£500 (1913-14). 
Magnetic Re-survey of the British Isles (in collaboration with the 
Royal Society).— £250. 
Committee on Determination of Gravity -at Sea (p. xxxii)—£100 
(1914-15). 
Mr. F. Sargent, Bristol University, i connection with his Astro- 
nomical Work.—£10 (1914). 
Organising Committee of Section F (Economics), towards expenses of 
an Inquiry into Outlets for Labour after the War.—£100 (1915). : 
Rev. T. H. R. Phillips, for aid in transplanting his private observa- 
tory.—£20 (1915). 
Committee on Fuel Economy (p. xxxii).—£25 (1915-16), £10 (1919-20). 
Committee on Training in Citizenship (p. xxxv).—£10 (1919-20). 
Geophysical Committee of Royal Astronomical Society —£10 (1920). 
Conjoint Board of Scientific Societies —£10 (1920); £10 (1921). 
Marine Biological Association, Plymouth.—£200 (1921). 
On September 7, 1921, the Council authorised the expenditure of 
£300 from accumulated income of the fund upon grants to Research 
Committees approved by the General Committee at the Edinburgh 
Meeting, in addition to grants ordinarily made by, or applied for from, 
the Council. 
Sir J. K. Caird, on September 10, 1913, made a further gift of £1,000 
to the Association, to be devoted to the study of Radio-activity. In 
1920 the Council decided to devote the principal and interest of this gift 
at the rate of £250 per annum for five years to purposes of the research 
intended. The grant for the year ending March 24, 1922, was made to 
Sir E, Rutherford, F.R,S, 
