1882.] Account of Grants from the Donation Fund. 



341 



Br. 



£ s. d. 



To Balance on hand, Nov. 30, 



1881 1,446 6 3 



To Balance of Administrative 



Expenses 20 1 1 



Interest on Deposit 22 7 



Moiety of Treasury Grant 2,000 



£3,488 14 4 



Dec. 1, 1882. 



To Balance, and Moiety receiva- 

 ble from the Treasury £2,260 13 7 



Or. 



£ s. d. 



By Appropriations, as 



above 3,168 10 



Printing, Postage, Ad- 

 vertising, and other 

 Administrative Ex- 

 penses 59 10 9 



Balance on hand, Nov. 



30, 1882 .. 260 13 7 



£3,488 14 4 



Account of Grants from the Donation Fund in 1881-82. 



Silvanus P. Thompson, for the cost of Experiments in the con- 

 struction of Polarising Prisms of large aperture (of angle). . . £12 



D. Mackintosh, for a Systematic Series of Observations in 

 North Wales on the Positions of Boulders, relatively to the 

 Forms of the Natural Surfaces on which they rest, with a view 

 to throw light on the approximate date of the final disappearance 



of Glaciers and Floating Ice 7 



Dr. A. Downes, to study further the Influence of Light on 

 low forms of Life, with especial reference to (1) the Behaviour 

 of such Organisms in various Media ; (2) the question of their 

 Destruction, or reduction to a state of dormant Vitality, by Light 10 



Profs. Reinold and Riicker, for continuation, with improved 

 Apparatus, of Researches on the Electrical Properties of Thin 



Films 30 



J. N. Langley, for Observations on. the Changes which take 

 place in the Cells of the Liver during Secretion ; and Observa- 

 tions on the Liver, and on the Gastric Glands of Birds during 

 Digestion 30 



E. D. Archibald, for experimental Researches into the Physics 



of the Atmosphere and its Meteorology by means of Kites 20 



Carried forward 



£109 



