1878.] Appropriation of the Government Grant. 75 



Account of Grants from the Donation Fund in 1877-78. 



For Illustrations for the Naturalists' (Transit of Venus) 



Reports £200 



J. Evans, for Exploration of Caves in Borneo 50 



J. E. H. Gordon, for continuation of Researches on the 



Specific Inductive Capacity of Dielectrics 25 



W. R. Hodgkinson, for an Investigation on the Action of 

 Ethylbenzol Acetate upon acetic, butyric, and iso- 

 butyric Ethers 25 



£300 



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. XX VI, p. 457). 



1878. 



1. W. Ramsay, for Apparatus to be employed in a Research 

 into the Action of Light and Heat in Decomposing Hydriodic 

 .and Hydrobromic Acids, with a view to compare the action of 



Heat and Light £30 



2. J. H. Poynting, to determine the Mean Density of the 

 Earth by means of an Ordinary Balance in place of the Torsion 

 Balance, and to Investigate means to very greatly increase the 

 Accuracy of the Balance 150 



3. Captain Abney, for registering the Intensity of the Spec- 

 trum of Daylight 50 



4. Dr. Duncan and P. Slaclen, for Publication of a Monograph 

 of the Arctic Echinodermata, especially those of Smith's Sound 



and to the North 60 



5. Bevan Lewis, for a Research into the Histology of the 

 Cerebral Cortex in Man and the higher Mammalia, with especial 

 reference to the Motor Area as defined by Professor Ferrier .... 15 



6. D. Mackintosh, for aid in tracking Streams of Erratic 

 Blocks from their Parent Rocks, to ascertain the Character of 



the Drift Deposits with which they are associated 25 



7. W. C. Williamson, for continuation of Researches into the 

 Fossil Plants of the Coal Measures 30 



Carried forward. . . . , £360 



