112 



Appropriation of the Government Fund. [Nov. 30, 



. Brought forward £272 



A. Mallock, for the Construction of a Room and Foundation 

 for the Diffraction Grating Ruling Machine, and for Water 

 Power 50 



G. Gore, for (1) further Investigation of the Thermoelectric 

 Properties of Liquids ; (2) Completion of a Research into the 

 Phenomena of the Capillary Electroscope; and (probably) (3) 

 Examination of the Effects of Electric Currents in Friction .... 100 



Dr. Hopkinson, for continuing Experiments on the Residual 

 Charge of the Leyden Jar, on Specific Inductive Capacity, and 

 for other Electrostatic Experiments 150 



E. Neison, for continuation of Computations in the Lunar 

 Theory 75 



D. Gill, for the Payment of Computers to aid in the Reduction 

 of Heliometric Observations made by him at the Cape of Good 

 Hope 75 



J. Kerr, for continuation of Electro-Optic and Magneto- Optic 

 Researches 100 



J. Glaisher, towards the Expense of Printing the Factor Table 

 of the Fourth Million . e 150 



Professor R. Grant, for the expense of Printing a Catalogue of 

 the Mean Places of 6,350 Stars, based on Observations made at 

 the Glasgow Observatory 300 



Professors Liveing and Dewar, for continuation of Experi- 

 ments in relation to Spectroscopic Investigations 200 



A. Buchan, for further Aid in the Construction of Isobaric 

 Charts for the United Kingdom 100 



T. Stevenson, for averaging and discussing a Register of 23 

 years' Observations of Temperature of the Barometer and Ther- 

 mometer, and of Rain, kept at Rothesay 50 



A. Tribe, for Researches into the Distribution of Radicals in 

 Metals suspended in Electrolytes in the act of Electrolysis ; and 

 Analogies (or otherwise) between Phenomena in Dielectric and 

 Electrolytic Media 50 



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

 ments of the Specific Inductive Capacity of Dielectrics 73 



B. Stewart, for an Investigation of Inequalities of Short Period 



in a Series of Observations 60 



H. Tomlinson, for continuation of Researches into the Effect 

 of Strain and Pressure on Matter when under the Influences of 

 the Forces of Heat, Electricity, Magnetism, and Chemical 

 Aflmity 100 



Samuel Allport, for an accurate Investigation of the Pheno- 



Carried forward -£1,905 



