XXX1 
DHE CATIRD 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 allocations made from the Fund by the Council to September 
1922 will be found stated in the Report for 1922, p. xxxi. 
In and since 1921, the Council have authorised expenditure from 
accumulated income of the fund upon grants to Research Committees — 
approved by the General Committee by way of supplementing sums 
available from the general funds of the Association, and 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 grants for the year ending March 24, 1922 and 1923, 
were made to Sir E. Rutherford, F.R.S. The grant for the year ending 
- March 24, 1924, was made to Prof. F. Soddy, F.R.S. 
