Account of Grants from the Donation Fund in 1877-78. For Illustrations for the Naturalists' (Transit of Venus) J. Evans, for Exploration of Caves in Borneo.. ..... W. R. Hodgkinson, for an Investigation on the Action of £200 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 £300 0 0 Account of the appropriation of the sum of £1,000 (the Government Grant) annually voted by Parliament to the Royal Society, to be employed in aiding the advancement of Science (continued from Vol. XXVI, p. 457). 1878. 1. W. Ramsay, for Apparatus to be employed in a Research into the Action of Light and Heat in Decomposing Hydriodic and Hydrobromic Acids, with a view to compare the action of Heat and Light.... 2. J. H. Poynting, to determine the Mean Density of the Earth by means of an Ordinary Balance in place of the Torsion Balance, and to Investigate means to very greatly increase the Accuracy of the Balance.... 3. Captain Abney, for registering the Intensity of the Spectrum of Daylight.... 4. Dr. Duncan and P. Sladen, for Publication of a Monograph of the Arctic Echinodermata, especially those of Smith's Sound and to the North .... £30 150 50 5. Bevan Lewis, for a Research into the Histology of the Cerebral Cortex in Man and the higher Mammalia, with especial reference to the Motor Area as defined by Professor Ferrier .... 6. D. Mackintosh, for aid in tracking Streams of Erratic Blocks from their Parent Rocks, to ascertain the Character of the Drift Deposits with which they are associated ..... 60 15 25 7. W. C. Williamson, for continuation of Researches into the Fossil Plants of the Coal Measures 30 Brought forward.............. 8. Professor Lankester, for the Investigation of the LifeHistory and Specific Forms of Bacteria; the Relation of Special Forms to Special Putrefactive and other Physiological Activities; and the Generic and Specific Distinctions... 9. A. Wynter Blyth, for continuation of Researches into the Chemical Constitution of the Poison of the Cobra de Capello .. 10. M. M. Pattison Muir, for Investigation of the Chemical Nature of Essential Oil of Sage, and the Determination of the Chemical and Physical Constituents of this Oil ...... £360 40 20 30 11. A. Macfarlane, for Apparatus to continue and extend an exact experimental Research into the Conditions of Passage of the Disruptive Discharge of Electricity .. 50 12. W. Crookes, for continuing his Researches connected with Repulsion resulting from Radiation. 200⚫ 13. Professor Church, for continuation of Researches in Plant Chemistry 50 14. E. Neison, for Computations in the Lunar Theory 15. G. J. Stoney, for completing a Spectroscope of great Aperture and continuing his Experiments on the Motions in Gases 16. B. Stewart, for analysing the Records of Magnetic Declination.... 17. Baron Ettingshausen, for travelling expenses, and maintenance in England during the preparation of a Monograph on the Eocene Flora of Great Britain.... 75 100 75. 50 |