1875.] Appropriation of the Government Grant. 101 



Account of the appropriation of the sum of £1000 annually voted 

 by Parliament to the Royal Society (the Government Grant) , 

 to be employed in aiding the advancement of Science (con- 

 tinued from Vol. XXIII. p. 80). 



1875. 



1. Mr. C. E. A. Wright, for continuation of Researches on the 

 Opium Alkaloids £50 



2. Mr. G. J. Eomanes, for an Experimental Inquiry into the 

 Pacts of Heredity, as exhibited by Plants and by Animals 30 



3. Messrs. Dewar and M'Kenclrick, for an Investigation of the 

 Physiological Action of Light, and of the Chinoline and Pyridine 

 Bases 150 



4. Prof. W. C. Williamson, for Eesearches on the Organization 



of the Possil Plants of the Coal-measures 30 



5. Prof. Church, for aid in continuing and extending Investiga- 

 tions into the Colouring-matter Turacin 50 



6. Prof. G. C. Poster, for Apparatus and Experiments to esta- 

 blish a practical method of measuring the Electrical Eesistance of 



any conductor in absolute electromagnetic measure 100 



7. Mr. H. T. Stainton, for aid in publishing the 'Zoological 

 Eecord' 100 



8. Dr. Bigsby, for aid in publishing a ' Thesaurus Devonico- 

 Carboniferus' 150 



9. Dr. Maxwell Simpson, for continuation of Eesearches on the 

 Synthesis of Organic Compounds 50 



10. Prof. Eoscoe and Prof. Balfour Stewart, for the obtaining of 

 Drawings to scale of a definite Portion of the Solar Spectrum .... 100 



11. GL E. Bod well, for investigating the change of volume by 

 Heat of Bromide and Chloride of Silver, and of certain Paraffines . 60 



12. Prof. Duncan, for investigation of the Histology of the 

 Actinida% and of the Genus Primnoa 25 



13. J. N. Lockyer, for continuation of Spectroscopic Eesearches . 200 



14. Prof. W. N. Hartley, for continuation of Eesearches on the 

 Photographic Spectra of Substances 50 



15. Prof. W. E. Parker, for aid, in publication by the Linnean 

 Society, of Drawings illustrative of Eesearches on the Development 



of the Skull in the Vertebrata 100 



16. Mr. J. M. Thomson, for Experiments on the Absorption of 

 Gases by Charcoal at high Pressures 25 



17. Mr. E. A. Mahomed, for Eesearches on Arterial Tension . . 25 



18. Sir W. Thomson, for Eeduction of Tidal Observations .... 100 



£1395 



