1887.] Account of Grants from the Donation Fund. 



209 



Dr. 



£ s. d. 



To Balance November 30, 1886. . 279 15 4 



„ Grant from Treasury 4,000 



„ Repayments 109 15 3 



„ Interest on Deposit 11 16 8 



£4,401 7 3 



Cr. 



£ s. d. 



By Appropriations, as 



above 4,324 7 



Printing, Postage, Ad- 

 vertising, and other 

 Administrative Ex- 

 penses 54 14 9 



By Balance on hand, 



Nov. 30, 1887 .... 22 5 6 



£4,401 7 3 



Account of Grants from the Donation Fund in 1886-87. 



£ s. d. 



W. de la Rue, for the completing of his Catalogue of 

 Latitude and Longitudes of Solar Spots, £200. On ac- 

 count 81 17 



Prof. Humphry, to assist Mr. C. B. Lockwood in his in- 

 vestigations on the Development of the Heart 30 



Dr. Sclater, to assist Mr. Quelch in obtaining specimens 

 of the young of the Hoatzin (Opisthocomus cristatus) .... 10 



Prof. Schiifer, to assist Mr. J. R. Bradford in his re- 

 searches upon the salivary secretion „ 15 



Prof. Bonney, to assist Mr. A. T. Evans in examining 

 sections, pits, &c, in the Midland Counties where the 

 Bunter Conglomerate is well exposed 10 



The Delta Boring Committee, for continuation of 

 borings in the Delta of the Nile 200 



Dr. Gaskell, in aid of his researches on the structure, 

 distribution, and function of the Vascular and Yisceral 

 Nerves 40 



G. R. Vine, to complete descriptions of British Fossil 

 Polyzoa and other Organisms 10 



W. Christie, for the adaptation and freight of instru- 

 ments to observe the Total Solar Eclipse of August 19th 

 (observer, H. Turner) 30 



W. T. Thiselton Dyer, to assist Mr. W. Hemsley in 

 drawing up in alphabetical form a digest of the existing 

 information, and most accessible literature, relating to the 

 Vegetable Productions and Resources of the various pos- 

 sessions of the Empire 20 



Carried forward 



£446 17 



