1886.] Appropriation of the Government Grant. 397 



Brought forward £1,122 



W. Doberck, for aid in making sufficient Observations to 

 construct Hygrometric Tables for use with Rotating Ther- 

 mometers 100 



W. W. Haldane Gee, for determining certain Magnetic Con- 

 stants of Iron, Nickel, and Cobalt, and their alloys ; especially 

 to investigate the temperature coefficients of magnets made 

 from the materials 25 



Dr. D. Gill, for constructing an improved apparatus for Pho- 

 tographing Star Maps 100 



W. F. Denning, for observation of Shooting Stars, and of 

 their radiant points, with special reference to the long duration 

 and stationary position of many meteor showers 40 



G. J. Symons, for studying the Barometric Oscillations of 

 short period which occur only during thunderstorms 22 



G. J. Symons, for renewing Rain-gauges on certain mountains 

 in the English Lake District, and in Wales 30 



J. H. Poynting, for the determination of the Mean Density 

 of the Earth by the ordinary balance 40 



The Eclipse Committee of the Royal Society, towards the 

 expenses of the Eclipse (1886) Expedition 400 



The Pendulum Committee of the Royal Society, for the 

 expense of Pendulum Observations to be made at the Kew 

 Observatory 150 



G. R. Vine, for further work upon and descriptions of 

 British Fossil Polyzoa and other organisms 20 



S. J. Hickson, for the hire of boats and labour in the pur- 

 suit of work upon the Anatomy and Development of Mille- 

 pora, &c , 100 



H. T. Stainton, in aid of publication fund of the Zoological 

 Record Association 100 



J. Starkie Gardner, for concluding investigations into the 

 Fossil Floras of the Basaltic Formations of Ireland and 

 Scotland 50 



The Liverpool Marine Biology Committee, for the exploration 

 of the Sea Bottom by Dredgings in Liverpool Bay and the 

 neighbourhood . r 25 



W. C. Mcintosh, for continuation of Researches on the ova 

 and development of the Food and other Fishes, and on the 

 reproduction of the Common Mussel 100 



Percy F. Kendall, for the exploration by excavation and 

 the removal to Manchester of a large quantity of the Clay of 

 the recently discovered Pliocene deposit of St. Erth, Cornwall 30 



Carried forward, 



£2,454 



