1885.] Account of Grants from the Donation Fund. 313 



Account of Grants from the Donation Fund in 1884-85. 



£ s. d 



Prof J. J. Thomson, for Apparatus to make quanti- 

 tative experiments in the decomposition of steam under 

 various pressures by the silent electrical discharge 25 



Dr. Gaskell and Mr. Gadow, to further assist them in 

 their anatomical and physiological Researches on Rep- 

 tiles 30 



Dr. Brunton, for continuation of his Researches on the 

 connexion between Chemical Constitution and Physio- 

 logical Action , 50 



A Committee of the Royal Society, for further aid in 

 photographing the Corona of the San and carrying out 

 other physical observations at high elevation 36 14 



Prof. Lankester, in aid of an investigation into the Fresh- 

 water Fauna of England 50 



Mr. Harvey Gibson, for aid in the prosecution of his 

 Researches into the Embryology of Patella vulgata 20 



The Marine Biological Association, for the erection of 

 marine laboratories on the coast of Great Britain 250 



Prof. Schafer, for further aid in his Researches into the 

 Physiology of the Heart, and the Electrical Condition of 

 Secreting Glands 20 



Dr. Sclater, to secure the services of Mr. W. H. Hudson 

 in revising and preparing for publication a work on the 

 Birds of the Argentine Republic 40 



The Krakatoa Committee, for further Expenses in 

 collecting and classifying notices of the Volcanic Out- 

 bursts in the Straits of Sunda 50 



Prof. Roy, for aid in investigating in Spain the nature 

 of Cholera 150 



Prof. Judd, for aid in making excavations at Cutties' 

 Hillock Quarry, near Elgin 12 



£733 14 



