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methods of measuring high temperatures, to be done in con- 

 nection with Professor Trowbridge. 



The Treasurer has paid from the income of the Rumford 

 Fund $308.50 for the Rumford Medals, $500 to Mr. W. H. 

 Pickering, to aid him in observing the total eclipse of the 

 sun in August, $250 to Professor Trowbridge for his research, 

 $149.05 for books and journals on light and heat, and $463.13 

 for printing in the Memoirs or Proceedings papers relating to 

 these subjects. Appropriations to the amount of $825 have 

 not yet been paid and will come out of the income of the cur- 

 rent year. 



The Committee ask the Academy to act upon the annexed 

 vote. 



For the committee, 



Joseph Lovering, Chairman. 



Voted, That an appropriation of $250 be made from the in- 

 come of the Rumford Fund to aid Mr. E. D. Leavitt, Jr. in 

 his work on pyrometry and other methods of measuring high 

 temperatures. 



The report was accepted and the Academy passed the vote 

 recommended by the committee. 



Professor Cooke presented the Annual Report of the 

 Council. 



The President read a letter from Dr. O. W. Holmes, in 

 which he declined re-election to the office of Vice-President ; 

 also, a letter from Professor C. R. Lanman, Corresponding 

 Secretary of the American Oriental Society, thanking the 

 Academy for the use of its Hall for the meeting of the 

 Society. 



Dr. William Everett read a notice of the Hon. Charles 

 Francis Adams, late President of the Academy, which he had 

 prepared at the request of the Council. 



Dr. Everett stated that on the 4th of July a memorial 

 service would be held in Quincy in honor of Mr. Adams. 



The Corresponding Secretary announced that memorial 

 notices had been prepared, by the request of the Council, of 

 Mr. Charles C. Perkins, by the Hon. Martin Brimmer, and of 



