1887.] Appropriation of the Government Grant. 205 



The following Table shows the progress and present state of the 

 Society with respect to the nnmber of Fellows : — 





Patron 

 and 

 Koyal. 



Foreign. 



Com- 

 pounders. 



£4 

 yearly. 



£3 

 yearly. 



Total. 



Nov. 30, 1886 . . 



5 



49 



192 



172 



100 



518 



Since Elected . . 







4 l 



+ 1 



+ 14 



+ 16 



Since Deceased . . 





- 1 



- 5 



- 8 



- 2 



- 16 



Nov. 30, 1887 



5 



48 



188 



165 



112 



518 



Account of the appropriation of the sum of £4,000 (the Govern- 

 ment Grant) annually voted by Parliament to the Royal 

 Society, to be employed in aiding the advancement of 



Science (continued from Vol. XLI, p. 396). 



1886-87. 



£ 



Prof. P. G. Tait, for Reduction of Observations, by Forbes' 

 method, for determination of Thermal Conductivity ........ 40 



A. P. Laurie, for a Research into the Electromotive Force of 

 Metals and Alloys in constant Voltaic Cells 15 



A Committee, for the purpose of investigating chemically 

 the Water of the Clyde river entrance and lock-systems 150 



The Solar Eclipse Committee of the Royal Society 100 



The Pendulum Committee of the Royal Society, for the 

 expense of Pendulum Observations to be undertaken at the 

 Kew Observatory 100 



R. Kidston, to continue his Investigations into the distri- 

 bution of the Carboniferous Flora, and to prepare lists of Fossil 

 Plants characteristic of the upper, middle, and lower divisions 

 of the Coal Measures as developed in Britain 40 



A Committee, for Illustrations to Mr. Hamilton's Work on 

 the Central Nervous System 300 



Dr. Warner, to assist in enumerating, analysing, and studying 

 Nerve-muscular Movements in Man, as signs indicating the 

 action of nerve-centres , 30 



Carried forvvard £775 



