1877.] Appropriation of the Government Fund. 459 



Brought forward £250 



Tensions of Colloids ; and (2) the Examination of Heat Spectra and 

 Radiant Heat by means of varying Electrical Resistance in Thin 

 Wires 150 



J. T. Bottomley, to aid in carrying out a series of Experiments 

 for determining the Conductivity for Heat of various Liquids and 

 Solutions of Salts 100 



Sir "William Thomson, for Assistance and Materials for a con- 

 tinuation of Experiments on the Effects of Stress in Magnetism. . 100 



J. A. Broun, for payment of Computers and other Expenses 

 attending correction of the Errors in the published Observations of 

 the Colonial Magnetic Observatories 150 



W. Crookes, for assistance in continuing his Researches connected 

 with " Repulsion resulting from Radiation " 300 



Prof. Riicker and Prof. Thorpe, for a Comparison of the Air and 

 Mercurial Thermometers 50 



E. D. Brown, for an Investigation of the Physical Properties, the 

 Specific Gravity, Expansion by Heat and Yapour Tension, of the 

 Homologous and Isomeric Liquids of the C n H 2 »+i Series 100 



Prof. Roscoe, for continuation and extension of the Experiments 

 on the Self -registering Method of measuring the Chemical Action 

 of Light 100 



Sir William Thomson, for Investigation and Analysis of Tidal 

 Observations and Periodic Changes of Sea-level 200 



Dr. Joule, for Experimental Investigations into the Mechanical 

 Equivalent of Heat 200 



Dr. I. B. Balfour, for the expense of Illustrations for a ' Mono- 

 graph of the Pandanacese/ which he is now working out 50 



Prof. Parker, for assistance in Researches on the Morphology of 

 the Vertebrate Skeleton and the Relations of the Nervous to the 

 Skeletal Structure, chiefly in the Head 300 



Rev. W. H. Dallinger, for Microscopic Investigations of Monads, 

 Bacteria, and other low forms of Life 100 



H. T. Stainton, for aid in publishing the ' Zoological Record ' . . 100 



Prof. M'Kendrick, for Apparatus for a Research into the Respira- 

 tion of Eishes 75 



Prof. Gamgee, for a more complete Survey than has yet been 

 made of the Physiological Action of the Chemical Elements and 

 their more simple Compounds, with the object, in the first instance, 

 of establishing a Physiological Classification of the Elementary 



Bodies 50 



Rev. J. E. Blake, for aid in compiling and pubhshing a ' Synopsis 

 of the British Eossil Cephalopoda ' 100 



Carried forward <£2475 



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