110 



Appropriation of the Government Grant. [Nov. 30, 



Account of Grants from the Donation Fund in 1879-80. 



Professor W. C. Williamson, to aid in continuing his 

 Investigations of the Fossil Plants of the Coal 

 Measures £30 



Dr. Anton Dohrn, to aid in the publication of Mono- 

 graphs on the " Fauna and Flora of the Gulf of 

 Naples, and adjacent parts of the Mediterranean " £100 



£130 



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. XXIX, p. 440.) 

 1880. 



1. J. 1ST. Lockyer, for continuation of Researches on the Solar 

 Spectrum £200 



2. Professors Thorpe and Riicker, for continuation of the 

 Comparison of the Air and Mercurial Thermometers . . 75 



3. A. M. Worthington, for Researches on the Tension of 

 Liquid Surfaces 10 



4. W. G. Adams and E. B. Sargeant, for the Determination 

 of the Ratio of the Lateral Contraction to the Longitudinal Ex- 

 tension in a Cylindrical Bar of a Homogeneous Elastic Solid 

 subjected to simple Longitudinal Stress 100 



5. W. Crookes, for continuation of Researches on Molecular 

 Physics in High Vacua , , 300 



6. W. C. Roberts, for assistance in Conducting Researches 

 on the Passage of Molten Metals and Alloys through Capillary 

 Tubes , 25 



7. Professor Rupert Jones, for continuing the Illustration of 

 Fossil Entromostraca * 25 



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

 the Mammalian Order Insectivora, with the view of publishing 

 as complete a Monograph as possible of this comparatively little 

 studied order of Mammals, in which full descriptions, with the 

 Anatomy and Geographical Distribution of every Species, will 



be given 50 



Carried forward £785 



