498 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



made in April, 1920, for the study of compounds which are formed 

 in Hquid ammonia solution. 



In common with the Committees or Trustees in charge of other 

 funds for research your Committee has received comparatively few 

 applications within the past two or three years. There are indica- 

 tions of increasing interest in such funds, and there is expectation 

 that several applications for grants from the Warren Fund will be 

 made in the near future. 



The unexpended balance in the hands of the Committee at the 

 present time is $4,683.11. 



Professor E. L. Mark reports that the results of the study of sea 

 water, for which an appropriation from the Warren Fund was made, 

 have been published. 



Professor R. E. Wilson reports that his investigations of the phe- 

 nomena accompanying the hydrolysis of certain organic compounds 

 have been completed and that the results will shortly be published. 

 Professor W. D. Harkins reports that the results of his investigations 

 of the surface energy relations of mercury, of adhesion and negative 

 surface energy, and of the entropy principle concerning the change 

 of molecular kinetic into molecular potential energy have appeared 

 in the Proceedings of the National x\cademy of Sciences. Others 

 to whom grants have been made have sent in satisfactory reports of 

 progress. 



H. P. Talbot, Chairman. 

 May 12, 1920. 



Report of the Publication Committee. 



The Committee of Publication reports as follows, for the period 

 from April 1, 1919 to March 31, 1920: 



During this period there have been issued No. 5 of Vol. 54 of the 

 Proceedings, and Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 of Vol. 55. The number of papers 

 by Fellows of the Academy published in its Proceedings has, as last 

 year, been below the average pre-war figure, and it has therefore been 

 possible under the rules to print several papers of value by authors 

 who are not Fellows. 



