640 proceedings of the american academy, 



Report of the Publication Committee. 



Between May 1, 1907, and May 1, 1908, there were published of the 

 Proceedings, three numbers of Volume XLII (Nos. 27-29), and six- 

 teen numbers of Volume XLIII ; also one biographical notice, — in all 

 567 + V pages and four plates. Five numbers of Volume XLIII 

 (Nos. 1, 4, 10, 11, and 15) were paid for from the income of the Rum- 

 ford Fund. 



There has also been published, at the expense of the Rumford Fund, 

 one Memoir (Volume XIII, No. 5, pp. 188-215, plates xxv-xxvii). 



There are in press two numbers of the Proceedings ; and an exten- 

 sive Memoir of some three hundred pages, illustrated with forty-four 

 plates, is in type. This will complete Volume XIII of the Memoirs. 



The Academy placed at the disposal of the Publication Committee, 

 from the income of the Publication Fund, $3200. Of this amount, 

 $3046.55 have been paid by the Treasurer on bills approved by the 

 chairman of the Committee, leaving a balance of .$153.45. 



Bills aggregating $473.51 incurred in publishing Rumford papers 

 have been forwarded to the chairman of the Rumford Committee for 

 approval. 



Report of House Committee. 



During the last year the lower story of the Academy's House has 

 been occupied by the three physicians to whom it has been leased ; 

 the second story by the Academy itself, the Meeting Room being in 

 the rear, and the Reception Room and the Librarian's Office being 

 in the front ; the third story by the dwelling rooms of the Assistant 

 Librarian, and the fourth story by storerooms and workroom, and a 

 bedroom for the Janitor. Under this arrangement the building has 

 been almost constantly occupied in one part or another, and its con- 

 tents have been properly guarded. 



The bills approved by the Secretary of the Academy and the Chair- 

 man of this Committee, and paid by the Treasurer, have amounted to 

 $1624.62, of which $1200 was e.specially appropriated at the begin- 

 ning of the year, and the balance, amounting to $414.62, was made up 

 from unappropriated funds in the hands of the Treasurer by a subse- 

 quent vote of the Academy. These amounts include $11.50 spent for 

 the tables and dishes used for the slight repasts which have been fur- 

 nished to the members at the close of the meetings. The sum of $1 6.02, 

 which has been the total cost of five such entertainments, coming to 

 about $3.30 apiece, has been charged to the expense of the meetings. 



