1889.] Appropriation of the Government Grant. 471 



£ s. d. 



Brought forward 1,407 11 7 



W. J. Dibdin, for a Research on Stellar Photometry, 

 especially the Determination of the Luminous Energy of 



the Coloured Stars 100 



Royal Astronomical Society, for sending Observers to 

 Cayenne and Autigas Factories (South Africa), to make 

 Observations, especially Photographic, of the Total Solar 



Eclipse of December 21-22, 1889 400 



A. A. Common, for payment of an Assistant in apply- 

 ing his 5-foot Telescope to Astronomical Photography. . . . 150 



J. A. Fleming, to test a proposed method of construct- 

 ing a Standard Air Condenser, to be available for the 

 Comparison of the Mica and Paraffin Condensers used in 



Telegraph work . . 50 



J. N". Lockyer, for payment of an Assistant to carry on 

 Spectroscopic Observations 125 



N. Collie, for a Research on (1) the Action of HC1 

 on the Amide of Acetoacetic Ether, &c. ; (2) the Con- 

 stitution of some Oxypyridine Derivatives 25 



S. E. Linder and H. Picton, for a Research into the 

 Formation and Properties of Metallic Hydrosulphides, 



&c 30 



J. E. Reynolds, for continuation of Researches on Silicon 

 Compounds 60 



W. R. Dunstan, for a Research on the Connection be- 

 tween Chemical Constitution and Physiological Action as 

 exhibited by some of the Homologous and Metameric 

 Nitrites of the Paraffin Series 75 



W. R. Dunstan, for further Aid in an Examination of 

 the Reduction Products of the Nitro-paraffins 20 



Dr. C. R. Alder Wright, for Aid in continuing Researches 

 on Ternary Alloys 100 



Gr. J. Symons, for a Research on the Temperature of 

 Hot Springs in the Pyrenees 50 



C. Lapworth, for continuing a Research among the 

 Lower Palaeozoic Rocks and Fossils of Britain 100 



West Indies Committee, for further Aid in collecting 

 Fauna and Flora in the less known West India Islands . . 100 



China Floral Committee, for continuing the Investiga- 

 tion of the Flora of China 300 



G. H. Fowler, for a Research on Problems connected 

 with the Physiology and Binomics of the Lesser Crustacea 150 



Carried forward 



£3,242 11 7 



