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Appropriation 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. XXXIII, p. 76.) 



1882. 



£ s. d. 



A. Macfarlane, for a Quantitative Research on the Con- 

 ditions of Discharge of Electricity of high Potential 25 



H. S. Hele Shaw, for the construction of an Improved 

 Anemometer ; three diagrams and photograph 50 



B. Stewart, for the expense of an Assistant in inves- 

 tigating the Inequalities of Sun-spots, and their Terrestrial 



Effects 80 



J. N". Lockyer, for Spectroscopic Researches in connex- 

 ion with the Spectrum of the Sun 100 



Thos. and Andrew Gray, for continuation of Experi- 

 ments on the Specific Resistance and Specific Inductive 

 Capacity of different kinds of Glass 50 



J. Kerr, for continuation of Experiments in Electro- and 

 Magneto-Optics. 50 



Prof. W. N. Hartley, for continuation of Researches on 

 Ultra- Violet Spectra 150 



H. Tomlinson, for Investigations on the Influence of 

 Stress and Strain on the Action of Physical Forces 50 



T. Stevenson, for the Reduction and Discussion of Meteo- 

 rological Observations made from June to October, 1881, 

 at Fort William and on the top of Ben Nevis 50 



E. Neison, for continuation of Computations in the 

 Lunar Theory 50 



Prof. G. D. Liveing, for defraying the cost of Apparatus 

 and Material used by him in Spectroscopic Researches. . . . 200 



C. Michie Smith, for Spectroscope and Apparatus 

 suitable for observing and photographing the Spectrum 



of the Zodiacal Light 50 



C. Michie Smith, for an Electrometer for observing 



Atmospheric Electricity 20 



A. Mallock, for continuing his experiments on the ruling 



of large Diffraction-gratings 120 



G. F. Rodwell, for the construction of an Apparatus 



for determining with accuracy the Coefficients of Expansion 



Carried forward £1,045 



