1879.] Appropriation of the Government Fund. 443 



Brought forward £1308 



J. B. Jordan, for the construction of a Glycerine Barometer, 



and for carrying on Observations thereon 30 



W. Galloway, for continuing his Investigation of the Effect of 

 Coal Dust in promoting the Explosion of a Mixture of Air and 



Fire Damp 80 



H. . Tomlinson, for a Research into the Effect of Strain and 

 Pressure on Matter when under the Influences of the Forces of 



Heat, Electricity, Magnetism, and Chemical Affinity 100 



J. E. H. Gordon, for continuation of Experimental Measure- 

 ments of the Specific Inductive Capacity of Dielectrics 100' 



Rev. G. Henslow, for aid in Researches in Vegetable Phy- 

 siology: On the Absorption of Dew and Rain, and on the 



Transpiration of Plants 50 



B. T. Lowne, for further Investigation of the Structure and 



Functions of the Eyes of Invertebrates 40 



Professor M. F. Heddle, for a Research connected with the 



Scientific Mineralogy and Geognosy of Scotland 100 



"W. A. Forbes, for an Examination of the Pterylosis of Parrots-, 

 with a view to a better Arrangement and Classification of the 



Genera of that Sub-order 7 



Dr. C. Callaway, for a Research into the relations of the Pre- 

 Cambrian and Cambrian Rocks of Shropshire, extension thereof 

 into Scottish Highlands, with a view to the more accurate cor- 

 relation of the subdivisions of the Lower Palaeozoic Rocks .... 50 



Professor W. K. Parker, for assistance in continuation of 

 Researches on the Morphology of the Vertebrate Skeleton, and 



the Relations of the Nervous to the Skeletal Structure 300 



H. T. Stainton, in aid of the Publication Fund of the Zoolo- 

 gical Record Association 100 



Professor H. A. Nicholson and R. Etheridge, junior, for con- 

 tinuance of aid in Examining the Fossils of the Silurian Deposits 

 of Girvan, Ayrshire, and in publishing a Monograph upon them 60 



Colonel Godwin- Austen (Brit. Assoc. Committee), for Investi- 

 gation of the Natural History of the Island of Socotra 175 



Rev. A. E. Eaton, to defray the cost of Printing and Pub- 

 lishing a Descriptive Monograph of the Ephemerida? 75 



H. Woodward, for continuation of Work on the Fossil Crus- 

 tacea, especially with reference to the Trilobita and other ex- 

 tinct Forms, and their Publication by the Palaaontographical 



Society , 75 



Dr. W. H. Gaskell, for continuation of Researches upon Vaso- 

 motor Action 25 



Carried forward £2675 



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