320 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



The Treasurer in behalf of the Finance Committee recom- 

 mended that the same appropriations as for the preceding year 

 be made from the General Fund. 



Professor Lovering, the chairman, presented a report from 

 the Rumford Committee, and in accordance with its recom- 

 mendations the following votes were passed : — 



1. That the sum of six hundred dollars be paid from the income of 

 the Rumford Fund for the purchase of MeyersteirC s Spectrometer^ and 

 Regnaulfs Apparatus for Measuring the Tension of Vapors, to be 

 used by Professor Wolcott Gibbs for special investigations on Light 

 and on Heat ; the results of these investigations to be communicated 

 to the Rumford Committee to be offered by them for publication in the 

 " Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences." 



2. That the sum of two hundred dollars be paid from the income of 

 the Rumford Fund for the purchase of glass prisms, to be used by Pro- 

 fessor J. P. Cooke in investigations on the metallic spectra ; the results 

 of these investigations to be communicated to the Rumford Committee, 

 to be oflFered by them for publication in the " Memoirs of the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences." 



Professor Lovering, as chairman of the Committee of Publi- 

 cation, presented a report accounting for expenditures in 

 printing the Memoirs and Proceedings under the appropria- 

 tions of the last annual meeting. 



Professor Lovering also presented a report from the Rum- 

 ford Committee in relation to the published works of Count 

 Rumford. 



In accordance with the recommendations of the special 

 committee to whom was referred the subject of a revision 

 of certain Statutes of the Academy, it was voted that the 

 second Section of Chapter IX. be amended so as to read 

 as follows : — 



"■ Candidates for election as Resident Fellows must be proposed by 

 two or more Resident Fellows, in a recommendation signed by them, 

 specifying the section to which the nomination is made ; which recom- 

 mendation shall be read at a stated meeting, and then stand on the 



