Account of the appropriation of the sum of £1000 annually voted by Parliament
to the Royal Society (the Government Grant), to be employed in aiding the
advancement of Science.

Report of the Kew Committee

December 11, 1873.

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I. A Quantitative Investigation of certain Relations between the Gaseous, the

Liquid, and the Solid States of Water-Substance. By Professor JAMES

THOMSON, LL.D., Queen's College, Belfast

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II. On the Action of Heat on Gravitating Masses. By WILLIAM CROOKES,

F.R.S. &c.

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III. On the Male, and the Structure, of Thaumops pellucida. By R. VON WIL-

LEMÖES-SUHM, Ph.D., H.M.S. 'Challenger'

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IV. On the Bending of the Ribs in Forced Breathing. By ARTHUR RANSOME,

M.D.

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