822 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



On recommendation of the Rumford Committee, it was 



Voted, To award Rumford Premium to Percy Williams Bridg- 



man, of Cambridge, Mass., for his Thermodynamical Researches 



at Extremely High Pressures. 

 The annual election resulted in the choice of the following officers 



and committees: — 



Charles P. Bowditch, President. 

 Elihu Thomson, Vice-President for Class I. 

 William M. Davis, Vice-President for Class II. 

 George F. Moore, Vice-President for Class III. 

 Harry W. Tyler, Corresponding Secretary. 

 Wm. Sturgis Bigelow, Recording Secretary. 

 Henry H. Edes, Treasurer. 

 Arthur G. Webster, Librarian. 



Councillors for Four Years. 



Henry Lefavour, of Class I. 

 William T. Sedgwick, of Class II. 

 Barrett Wendell, of Class III. 



Finance Committee. 



Henry P. Walcott, John Trowbridge, 



George V. Leverett. 



Rumford Committee. 



Charles R. Cross, Arthur G. Webster, 



Edward C. Pickering, Arthur A. Noyes, 



Louis Bell, Elihu Thomson, 



Theodore Lyman. 



C. M. Warren Committee. 



Henry P. Talbot, Charles L. Jackson, 



Walter L. Jennings, Arthur D, Little, 



Arthur A. Noyes, Gregory P. B.oiter, 



William H. Walker. 



