viii STATUTES OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 
SIAAMBDLINGU VOTES 
1. Communications of which notice has been given to the Secretary shall take precedence of 
those not so notified. 
2. Resident Fellows who have paid all fees and dues chargeable to them are entitled to receive 
one copy of each volume or article printed by the Academy, on application to the Librarian per- 
sonally or by written order, within two years from the date of publication. 
3. Resident Fellows may borrow and have out from the Library six volumes at any one time, 
and may retain the same for three months, and no longer. 
4. Upon special application, and for adequate reasons assigned, the Librarian may permit a 
larger number of volumes, not exceeding twelve, to be drawn from the Library, for a limited 
period. 
5. Works published in numbers, when unbound, shall not be taken from the Hall of the Acad- 
emy, except by special leave of the Librarian. 
6. Books, publications, or apparatus shall be procured from the income of the Rumford Fund 
only on the certificate of the Rumford Committee, that they, in their opinion, will best facilitate 
and encourage the making of discoveries and improvements which may merit the Rumford 
Premium. 
7. The annual assessment upon Resident Fellows shall be five dollars, until otherwise ordered. 
8. The annual meeting shall be holden at half past three o'clock, P. M. "The other stated 
meetings at half past seven o'clock, P. M. 
9. A meeting for receiving and discussing scientific communications shall be held on the 
second Tuesday of each month, excepting the three summer months. 
RUMFORD PREMIUM. 
In conformity with the last will of Benjamin Count Rumford, granting a certain fund to the 
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and with a decree of the Supreme Judicial Court for 
carrying into effect the general charitable intent and purpose of Count Rumford, as expressed in 
his said will, the Academy is empowered to make from the income of said fund, as it now exists, 
at any annual meeting, an award of a gold and silver medal, being together of the intrinsic value 
of three hundred dollars, as a premium, to the author of any important discovery or useful im- 
provement in light or in heat, which shall have been made and published by printing, or in any 
way made known to the public, in any part of the continent of America, or any of the American 
islands; preference being always given to such discoveries as shall, in the opinion of the Acad- 
emy, tend most to promote the good of mankind; and to add to such medals, as a further pre- 
mium for such discovery and improvement, if the Academy see fit so to do, a sum of money not 
exceeding three hundred dollars. 
