OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 555 



RUMFORD PREMIUM 



In conformity with the terms of the gift of Sir Benjamin Thompson, 

 Count Rumford, of a certain Fund to the American Academy of Arts 

 and Sciences, and with a decree of the Supreme Judicial Court of 

 IVIassachusetts for carrying into effect the general charitable intent and 

 purpose of Count Rumford, as expressed in his letter of gift, the Acad- 

 emy is empowered to make from the income of the Rumford Fund, as 

 it now exists, at any Annual Meeting, an award of a gold and a silver 

 medal, being together of the intrinsic value of three hundred dollars, 

 as a Premium to the author of any important discovery or useful 

 improvement in light or heat, which shall have been made and pub- 

 ished 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 always being given to such discoveries as, in the opinion of 

 the Academy, shall tend most to promote the good of mankind ; and, 

 if the Academy sees fit, to add to such medals, as a further Premium 

 for such discovery and improvement, a sum of money not exceeding 

 three hundred dollars. 



