310 



A ppropriation of the Government Grant. [Nov. 30, 



Account of the appropriation of the sum of £4,000 (the Govern- 

 ment Grant) annually voted by Parliament to the Royal 

 Society, to be employed in aiding the advancement of 

 Science (continued from Vol. XXXVII, p. 457). 



1884-85. 



£ 



Dr. D. Grill, for reducing and discussing several series of 

 observations of the minor planets Victoria and Sappho, for the 



purpose of determining the Solar parallax 100 



Council of the Royal Astronomical Society (per E. B. 

 Knobel), for comparison of Greenwich Lunar Observations, 



1847-61, with Hansen's " Tables de la Lune " 320 



Dr. D. Gill, for assistance and chemicals to obtain (1) a 

 Series of daily photographs of the Solar Corona ; (2) Photo- 

 graphic Star-maps of the Southern Heavens 300 



Prof. J. A. Ewing, towards the construction and establishment 



of Seismometers at the Observatory on Ben Nevis 200 



Prof. W. N. Hartley, for Materials, Apparatus, and Assist- 

 ance for continuing his investigations in (1) Spectrum Photo- 

 graphy, in relation to New Methods of Quantitative Chemical 

 Analysis ; (2) On the relation between the Absorption Spectra 



and the Molecular Constitution of Organic Compounds 100 



H. B. Guppy, for the exploration of the Interior of the 

 Islands of Guadalcanar and St. Christoval (Solomon's 



Group) 150 



W. H. Caldwell, for further aid in studying the development 

 of Ceratodus, Monotremata, and Marsupials in Australia .... 200 



Dr. S. J. Hickson, towards the expense of a voyage to the 

 Malay Archipelago with a view to certain Anatomical and 



Embryological Researches 200 



Dr. H. Hicks, for the expense of Exploring two Bone 

 Caverns, situated in the Carboniferous Limestone on the east 



side of the Vale of Clwyd, North Wales 50 



J. S. Gardner, for continuing Investigations into the 

 Tertiary Inter-basaltic Floras of Ireland, Scotland, and Ice- 

 land , 75 



F. R. Japp, for a study of the Reactions of Quinones, Di- 



ketones, and allied compounds 75 



Henry Robinson, for continuation of Researches on the 

 Atomic Weights of the Metals of the Cerium and Tttrium 

 Groups - 50 



Carried forward. 



£1,820 



