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from the general and puhlication funds shall he referred to or proposed 

 hy this Com)mttee. 



3. The Rumford Committee, of seven Fellows, to he chosen hy hallot ; 

 who shall consider and report on all applications and claims for the 

 Rumford Premium ; also on all appropriations from the income of the 

 Rumford Fund, and generally see to the due and proper execution of 

 this trust. 



Chapter VI., Section 4. All moneys which there shall not he present 

 occasion to expend shall he invested hy the Treasurer, under the direction 

 of the Finance Committe, on such securities as the Academy shall di- 

 rect. 



Chapter VIL, Additional Section : — 



1^ To all hooks in the library procured from the income of the Rum- 

 ford Fund, the Librarian shall cause a stamp or label to he affixed, ex- 

 pressitig the fact that they were so procured. 



The following additional Standing Vote was enacted : — 



2'^. Boohs, puhlications, or apparatus shall he procured from the in- 

 come of the Rumford Fund only on the certificate of the Rumford Com- 

 mittee, that they, in their opinion, will best facilitate and encourage the 

 making of discoveries and improvements which may merit the Rumford 

 Premium. 



Also voted, That the Statutes and Standing Votes as now 

 amended be printed under the direction of the Committee on 

 Publication . 



Five Iiuudred and fifteenth Meeting^. 



December 10, 1862. — Monthly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from Messrs. Bart- 

 lett, Searle, and A. Agassiz, in acknowledgment of their elec- 

 tion as Fellows. 



Dr. Hill read a paper " On a Geometrical Illustration of sev- 

 eral Algebraical Theorems concerning the Roots and Powers 

 of Monomials." 



Professor Peirce showed that some modifications of the geo- 

 metrical figure would render it capable of illustrating a still 

 wider range of algebraical theorems. 



