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at the market value of $10,000. After providing a plan for in- 
creasing the capital fund to $15,000, the deed of trust requires 
that once in every five years, about two-thirds of the accumulated 
interest shall be awarded as a prize, to be known as the “ Com- 
stock Prize,” “ to the bona fide resident of North America, who, 
not less than one year nor more than six years before the award- 
ing of the prize, shall have made in the judgment of the trustee 
the most important discovery or investigation in electricity or 
magnetism or radiant energy.” In case no such discovery or in- 
vestigation is deemed worthy of the prize the trustee is permitted, 
under certain conditions, to allot the prize-money in aiding 
research. The “‘ Comstock Prize” has not as yet been awarded.” 
During the period under consideration, 1903 to 1907, the 
following delegates were appointed to represent the Academy 
at meetings of various international associations, or celebrations 
at universities: Professor Simon Newcomb was delegated to 
attend a meeting of the Council of the International Association 
of Academies in London, June 4, 1903. The same year Dr. 
S. F. Emmons, President Van Hise and Dr. Geo. F. Becker, 
represented the Academy at the International Geological Con- 
gress held at Vienna on August 27. On the occasion of the 
soth anniversary of the founding of the University of Wisconsin, 
in 1904, Professor Grove K. Gilbert and Dr. Geo. E. Hale were 
the representatives of the Academy, and at the meeting of the 
International Association of Academies held in London on May 
25, 1904, the Academy was represented by its Foreign Associates, 
Sir Archibald Geikie and Sir E. Ray Lankester. The following 
year Dr. William Trelease was designated to attend the Inter- 
national Botanical Congress held in Vienna, June 11 to 18, 1905, 
while Dr. George E. Hale and Professor W. W. Campbell were 
the representatives on the Committee on Solar Research which 
met at Oxford in September, 1905. In 1906 Dr. Arnold Hague 
represented the Academy at the quaternary celebration of the 
University of Aberdeen. The following year Professor T. C. 
Chamberlin was the delegate of the Academy at the celebration 
“ For the deed of trust and other documents, see Rep. Nat. Acad. Sci. for 1907, pp. 13-15. 
