1883.] 



Appropriation of the Government Grant. 



83 



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. XXXIV, p. 340). 



1882-83. 



£ 



J. N". Lockyer, for Spectroscopic Researches in connexion 

 with the Spectrum of the San, for the purchase of apparatus 

 and materials 100 



J. L. E. Dreyer, for the expense of printing a " Second 

 Armagh Catalogue " of about 3,000 stars deduced from 

 meridian observations made in the years 1868-82 80 



F. D. Brown, for Researches in the measurement, or rather 

 estimation of the attraction which Molecules exert upon other 

 contiguous similar or dissimilar Molecules 150 



Dr. A. Macfarlane, for a quantitative investigation of the 

 laws and values of the Electricity produced by the friction of 

 different substances 50 



Dr. G. J. Hinde, for Researches into the Structure and 

 Classification of the British Fossil Sponges . , 50 



Rev. J. F. Blake, for aid in preparing and publishing a work 

 on British Fossil Cephalopoda 100 



W. Heape, for investigation of the early stages of Marsupial 

 embryology, with a view to the elucidation of problems of 

 mammalian development 50 



A. G. Bourne, for a research into the development of the 

 Hag-fish, inclusive of the expense of specimens 50 



Dr. Matthew Hay, for researches into the action of various 

 cathartics, as bearing on their relative therapeutic values ; and 

 into the digestion of cane-sugar 50 



Dr. Sanderson, for continuation of photographic investiga- 

 tions into the electrical phenomena which are associated with 

 the functional activity of Contractile Protoplasm 50 



A. Scott, for continuation of Researches into the Behaviour 

 of the Salts of Rubidium and Ca3sium and other Substances at 

 High Temperature 50 



Dr. H. E. Armstrong, for assistance in carrying on Re- 

 searches into Naphthaline Derivatives 100 



Prof. M. F. Heddle, for continuation of a Research con- 

 nected with the Scientific Mineralogy and Geognosy of Scotland 300 



Carried forward, 



.... £1,180 

 g2 



