440 



Appropriation of the Government Grant. [Dec. 1, 



Account of Grants from the Donation Fnnd in 1878-79. 



Messrs. Morrison and Marsden, for a Research into the 

 Solubility of Carbon and Silicon in Fused Metals, 

 and the Form in which they crystallise out on cooling £20 



J. Snodgrass, for a Research into the Absorption of Gases 



by Solutions of Salts 50 



Sir William Thomson, for the Construction of a Machine 



for solving Simultaneous Linear Equations 80 



£100 



Account of the appropriation of the sum of £1,000 (the Govern- 

 ment Grant) annually voted by Parliament to the Royal 

 Society, to be employed in aiding the Advancement of 

 Science (continued from Vol. XXVIII, p. 75.) 



1879. 



1. Dr. Stenhouse, for continuation of Researches into the 

 History of Naphthaline and its Derivatives, and into Gardenine £100 



2. W. Crookes, for continuation of Researches on the Vis- 

 cosity of Gases at various Exhaustions, and on the Trajectory 



of Molecules 200 



3. J. Glaisher, towards the expense of Printing the Factor 

 Table of the Fourth Million 150 



4. D. Gill, for obtaining assistance of Computors in finish- 

 ing the Reductions of the Observations which he made on Mars, 



at Ascension, ^877 . . . .' , . . 300 



5. Capt. A limey, for continuing his Researches on the Spectra 

 of Skylight, and his Investigations on Photographing the Ultra- 

 red Portion of the Solar Spectrum 30 



6. G. B. Buckton, for aid in Publishing a Monograph of the 

 British Aphides, which may lead to an increased knowledge of 



the Group, and the Phenomena concerned in their Reproduction 75 



7. G. E. Dobson, for Investigation of the Natural History of 

 the Mammalian Order Insectivora, embracing — (1) Descriptions 

 of all the known species ; (2) their distribution in space and 

 time ; (3) the anatomy of the least known, most interesting, and 

 most typical species 25 



Carried forward, 



£680 



