620 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



Ernest Fox Nichols of Columbia University, for his researches on 

 Radiation, — particularly on the pressure due to radiation, the heat of 

 the stars, and the infra-red spectrum. 



Reports upon the progress of researches aided from the Rumford 

 Fund have been received from the following persons : C. Barus, F. L. 

 Bishop, A. L. Clark, J. A. Dunne, E. B. Frost, G. E. Hale, E. H. 

 Hall, W. J. Humphreys, N. A. Kent, F. A. Laws, R. S. Minor, E. W. 

 Morley, E. F. Nichols, A. A. Noyes, E. C. Pickering, T. W. Richards, 

 F. A. Saunders, S. D. Townley, R. W. Wood. 



Since the last Annual Meeting papers as follows have been published 

 in the Proceedings at the expense of the Rumford Fund: — 



Lyman, T. An Explanation of the False Spectra from Diffraction 

 Gratings. 



Wood, R. W. The Anomalous Dispersion, Absorption, and Surface 

 Color of Nitroso-dimethyl-aniliue. 



Noyes, A. A., and Coolidge, W. D. The Electrical Cor .dvity of 

 Aqueous Solutions at High Temperatures. 1. Description of the 

 Apparatus. Results with Sodium and Potassium Chloride up to 306°. 



Morse, H. W. Spectra fi'om the Wehnelt Interrupter. 



Chas. R. Cross, Chair 



rman. 



Report of the C. M. Warren Committee. 



The C. M. Warren Committee begs leave to report that letters have 

 been received from Professor ]\Iabery, from Professor H. O. Hofman, 

 and from Dr. S. A. MuUiken, reporting satisfactory progress in the work 

 aided by grants voted by the Academy at the last Annual Meeting. 



The Committee recommends that the income of the C. M. Warren 

 F'und for the past year, $342.05, be placed at the disposal of the 

 Committee for use in the furtherance of Chemical Research. 



Leonard P. Kinnicutt, Chairman. 



Report of the Committee of Publication. 



Since the last Annual Report there have been published three numbers 

 of Volume XXXVHI. of the Proceedings, and the first twenty numbers 

 of Volume XXXIX., amounting to 627 pages and 10 plates. Five bio- 

 graphical notices have also been printed. On the second and third pages 

 of the cover of each article in the Proceedings is now printed a price-list 

 of the articles contained in the current volume and the one immediately 

 preceding it. This was begun with No. 6 of the current volume. 



