VI.—The Origin of the British Trias

1910 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 460-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. Horwood
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Grant

As a result of an investigation covering the Midland area, and especially from a study of the Upper Keuper of Leicestershire, the author, who has been aided in this research by a grant from the Government Grant Committee of the Royal Society, has arrived at the conclusion that, in so far as Great Britain is concerned, the Trias was laid down under delta conditions, during which, as in the Nile area to-day, æolian action took place, but was not responsible for deposition except locally on a small scale, and following the prevalent wind course.

scholarly journals Solar eclipse of May 28, 1900. Preliminary report of the expedition to the south limit of totality to obtain photographs of the flash spectrum in high solar latitudes

1901 ◽  
Vol 67 (435-441) ◽  
pp. 370-385 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Eclipse ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
The South ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society ◽  
The Government ◽  
Flash Spectrum ◽  
Government Grant

This expedition was one of those organised by the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society, funds being provided from a grant made by the Government Grant Committee. The following were the principal objects which I had in view in arranging the expedition:— To obtain a long series of photographs of the chromosphere and flash spectrum, including regions of the sun’s surface in mid-latitudes, and near one of the poles.

III. On the figure, dimensions, and mean specific gravity of the Earth, as derived from the ordnance trigonometrical survey of Great Britain and Ireland

1857 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 111-116 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Specific Gravity ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Government

The Trigonometrical Survey of the United Kingdom commenced in the year 1784, under the immediate auspices of the Royal Society; the first base was traced by General Roy on the 16th of April of that year, on Hounslow Heath, in presence of Sir Joseph Banks, then President of the Society, and some of its most distinguished Fellows. The principal object which the Government had then in view, was the connexion of the Observatories of Paris and Greenwich by means of a triangulation, for the purpose of determining the difference of longitude between the two observatories.

VI. The Royal Society and the Government Grant: Notes on the Administration of Scientific Research, 1849–191

1971 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. M. Macleod
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Scientific Societies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Support Of Research ◽  
Public Money ◽  
Government Grant ◽  
Century Science

The development of government participation in the support of research is one of the most significant characteristics of nineteenth-century science. As public money became available for science, the social framework of research underwent a profound transformation. This process of transformation is not easy to define, but the response of scientific societies and institutions sometimes provides significant clues.

II. Discussion of the results of some experiments with whirled anemometers

1881 ◽  
Vol 32 (212-215) ◽  
pp. 170-188
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Standard Pattern ◽  
Crystal Palace ◽  
Proper Factor ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Grant

In the course of the year 1872, Mr. R. H. Scott, F. R. S., suggested to the Meteorological Committee the desirability of carrying out a series of experiments on anemometers of different patterns. This suggestion was approved by the Committee, and in the course of same year a grant was obtained by Mr. Scott from the Government Grant administered by the Royal Society, for the purpose of defraying .the expenses of the investigation. The experiments were not, however, carried out by Mr. Scott himself, but were entrusted to Mr. Samuel Jeffery, then Superintendent of the Kew Observatory and Mr. G. M. Whipple, then First Assistant, the present Superintendent. The results have never hitherto been published, and I was not aware of their nature till on making a suggestion that an anemometer of the Kew standard pattern should be whirled in the open air, with a view of trying that mode of determining its proper factor, Mr Scott informed me of what had already been done, and wrote to Mr. Whipple requesting him to place in my hands the results of the most complete of the experiments, namely, those carried on at the Crystal Palace which I accordingly obtained from him. The progress of the enquiry may be gathered from the following extract from Mr. Scott's report in returning the unexpended balance of the grant.

scholarly journals Total solar eclipse, 1905, August 29-30. Preliminary report of the observations made at Guelma, Algeria

1906 ◽  
Vol 77 (514) ◽  
pp. 56-76
Keyword(s):  
Solar Eclipse ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Total Solar Eclipse ◽  
The South ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society ◽  
The North ◽  
Royal Observatory ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Grant

The expedition to which this report refers was one of those organised by the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society; it was supported by a grant made by the Government Grant Committee. Guelma was chosen for the site of the observations, as being an inland station between Sfax, which was selected for an expedition from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and Philippeville, which it was at first expected Sir Norman Lockyer would occupy. Guelma is 58 kilometres from Bona, 65 kilometres from Philippeville, 55 kilometres from the nearest coast of the Mediterranean Sea; it lies at a height of about 1200 feet above sea-level on the south side of the Valley of the Seybouze, amongst hills which range in height from about 3100 feet at 13 kilometres to the north, to about 4700 feet at 11 kilometres on the south, where lies the celebrated mountain, Mahouna, “the sleeping lady,” so called from the resemblance of its silhouette to the form of a woman. (For the position of the observing hut, see p. 59.)

Centenary of the NPL

2001 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-160
Author(s):  
A. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
National Physical Laboratory ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Physical Laboratory ◽  
Royal Observatory ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Grant

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) attained its centenary in 2000 and that was the occasion for a meeting in The Royal Society on 7 November 2000. The centenary is part of the record of The Royal Society because Fellows of the Society actively promoted the formation of the laboratory, and the programme of the Laboratory in its early years was guided by a committee of the Society. In addition, some of the researches of the Laboratory were supported by grants from the government grant administered by the Society. The relations between the early Laboratory and the Society are not unlike those between the Society and the early Royal Observatory more than 200 years earlier. The centenary of the NPL was indeed an event of the last year of the Second Millennium, and so we include this account of the meeting of 7 November, which includes Lord Sainsbury's and the President's Addresses and abstracts of the presentations from other speakers.

scholarly journals XVI. The embryology of monotremata and marsupialia.—Part I

1887 ◽  
Vol 178 ◽  
pp. 463-486 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Late Professor ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Grant

In 1882 the late Professor F. M. Balfour suggested my undertaking the study of the development of the peculiar Australian Mammalia and Ceratodus . In 1883 I decided to carry out this suggestion, and was elected to the travelling studentship founded in Balfour’s memory. The Committee of the Royal Society appointed to administer the Government Grant for the endowment of research gave me a sum of £400 for equipment.

scholarly journals Harmonic tidal constants for certain Australian and Chinese ports

1903 ◽  
Vol 71 (467-476) ◽  
pp. 91-96 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Grant

The tidal observations made at these five ports have been reduced by the aid of certain sums placed at my service by the Government Grant Committee of the Royal Society, and I am indebted to Professor G. H. Darwin for the loan of the apparatus he devised to facilitate the summation of hourly tidal heights, and to the; Hydrographer, Admi­ral Sir W. J. L. Wharton, who supplied me with the observations. The whole of the observations were reduced by the methods devised by Professor G. H. Darwin.*

scholarly journals VI. Researches on the atomic weight of thallium

1873 ◽  
Vol 163 ◽  
pp. 277-330 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Chemical Society ◽  
Atomic Weight ◽  
Spare Time ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Grant ◽  
Method Of Extraction ◽  
And Chemical Properties

In June 1862, and in February 1863, I had the honour to lay before the Royal Society communications on the subject of the then newly discovered metal, Thallium. In these I gave an account of its occurrence, distribution, and the method of extraction from the ore, together with its physical characteristics and chemical properties; also I discussed the position of thallium among elementary bodies, and gave a series of analytical notes. In the pages of the 'Journal of the Chemical Society’ for April 1, 1864, I collated all the information then extant, both from my own researches and from those of others, introducing qualitative descriptions of an extended series of the salts of the metal. I propose in the present paper to lay before the Royal Society the details and results of experiments which have engrossed much of my spare time during the last eight years, and which consist of very laborious researches on the atomic weight of thallium. In these researches I owe much to the munificence of the Royal Society for having placed at my disposal a large sum from the Government Grant. Without this supplement to my own resources it would have been difficult for me to have carried out the investi­gation with such completeness.

scholarly journals Report on the total solar eclipse of 1911, April 28. (Observed the expedition of the joint permanent eclipse committee to Vavau, Tonga Islands, South Pacific.)

1912 ◽  
Vol 87 (595) ◽  
pp. 293-301 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Eclipse ◽  
Focal Length ◽  
Ultra Violet ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Total Solar Eclipse ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
The Government ◽  
Flash Spectrum ◽  
Government Grant ◽  
Reasonable Prospect

1. General Arrangements . The expedition to observe the total solar eclipse of 1911, April 28, was organised by the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, the expenses being defrayed by the Government Grant Fund. Of the few islands in the South Pacific crossed by the track of the moon’s shadow during totality, Vavau, one of the northernmost group of the Tonga or Friendly Islands, was the most suitable for observing the eclipse, the duration of totality being computed at 217 seconds, and there being a reasonable prospect of good weather. The programme of observations consisted of photographs of the corona on a large and relatively small scale for coronal detail and extension of the streamers, and photographs of the spectrum of the corona and of the lower chromosphere. For these purposes the expedition was furnished with a 4-inch photographic lens of 20 feet focal length, kindly lent by the Council of the Royal Irish Academy, and the 4-inch Dallmeyer “Abney” lens of 34 inches focal length. For the spectrum of the corona Prof. Newall kindly lent the quartz spectroscope of four prisms, presented to the Cambridge Observatory by Major Hills, in order further to investigate the ultra-violet spectrum. The fourth instrument was made up of a large 7-inch prism of 40° in combination with a 6-inch Dallmeyer portrait lens of 30 inches focal length, This objective prismatic camera gave a short but very bright spectrum, 4⋅5 cm. from H α to H ζ . The intention was to investigate the red end of the coronal spectrum on dyed plates, and incidentally to photograph the flash spectrum. The members of the expedition were Father Cortie and Mr. W. McKeon, from the Stonyhurst College Observatory, and Father E. Pigot, Director of the Observatory of St. Ignatius’ College, Rivervievv, Sydney, N. S. W., who also acted as agent for the expedition in Sydney, in the preparation of huts to cover the instruments, and in the gathering of materials for building the piers for the foundations. The Admiralty gave instructions that H. M. S. “Encounter” should convey the observers and the instruments from Sydney to Vavau and back, and that every assistance should be rendered to the expedition in the erection of the instruments and in the observations. The expedition is greatly indebted to Captain Colomb, and to the officers and men of the “Encounter,” for their enthusiastic co-operation in the work of the expedition.

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