1877.] Appropriation of the Government Grant. 457 



Account of Grants from the Donation Fund in 1876-77. 



"W. Huggins, for a new Clock for the Society's Telescope . . £50 

 W. Huggins, for Apparatus for carrying on Spectroscopic 



Researches with the Society's Telescope 100 



Dr. Growers, for Apparatus for continuation of Researches 



on the Action of the Sphincter Ani 20 



W. R. Birt, for portable Stand for a Telescope belonging to 



the Society 10 3 6 



Rev. Dr. Robinson, for continuation of Experiments on the 



Theory of the Cup Anemometer 80 



.£260 3 6 



Account of the appropriation of the sum of £1000 (the Govern- 

 ment Grant) annually voted by Parliament to the Royal 

 Society, to be employed in aiding the advancement of Science 

 (continued from Vol. XXV. p. 369) . 



1877. 



1. Prof. "W. C. Williamson, for continuation of his Investiga- 

 tions into the Organization of the Possil Plants of the Coal- 

 measures .£50 



2. J. X. Lockyer, for continuation of Spectroscopic Researches . 200 



3. Prof. B. Stewart, for an Analysis of the Kew Magnetical and 

 Meteorological Records 100 



4. G-. J. Romanes, for continuing his Investigation on the Xervous 

 System of the Medusa , 50 



5. Dr. H. O. Bastian, for continuing his Researches into the 

 conditions which favour or retard Permentation in boiled and 

 guarded fluids 25 



6. Prof. GL P. Teo, for an Investigation into the connexion 

 between Latent Excitation and Contraction in Muscles 30 



7. Prof. Rupert Jones, for preparing Drawings of Possil Ento- 

 mostraca 25 



8. Prof. Maxwell Simpson, for a Research on the Synthesis of 

 Organic Compounds 100 



9. T. Camelry, for a Research on High Melting-points 60 



10. Dr. J. E. Reynolds, for an Investigation of Alcohols from 

 Elint 50 



Carried forward £690 



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