RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 739 



The Committee has authorized the purchase of various missing 

 volumes and numbers needed to complete the sets of certain periodicals 

 belonging to the library of the Academy. 



At two successive meetings held on February 10 and March 10, 1909, 

 the Committee unanimously voted to recommend to the Academy 

 that the Ruinford Premium be awarded to Professor Robert W. Wood, 

 of Johns Hopkins University, for his Discoveries in Light, and particu- 

 larly for his Researches on the Optical Properties of Sodium and other 

 Metallic Vapors. 



Charles R. Cross, Chairman. 



May 12, 1909. 



Report of the C. M. Warren Committee. 



The CM. Warren Committee beg leave to report that grants have 

 been made during the past year to the following persons, in aid of the 

 researches specified : — 



Professor A. W. Foote, Yale University, for his research on 

 the nature of precipitated colloids $300 



R. C. Tolman, Research Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology, to aid in the construction of a centrifuge for the 

 measurement of the electro-motive forces produced by the action 

 of centrifugal forces 150 



Reports have been received from Dr. Frederic Bonnet, Jr., from 

 Professor Walter L. Jennings, and Professor James F. Norris, in 

 regard to researches for which money has been contributed from the 

 Warren Fund. None of these researches are yet ready for publication, 

 but it is hoped all will be completed during the coming year. 



Leonard P. Kinnicutt, Chairman. 

 May 12, 1909. 



Report of the Publication Committee. 



Between May 1, 1908, and May 1, 1909, there were published six 

 numbers of Volume XLIII (Nos. 17-22), and seventeen numbers of 

 Volume XLIV of the Proceedings, likewise two biographical notices, 

 making in all 616 + v pages and nine plates. Two numbers of Volume 

 XLIII (Nos. 18 and 21), and one number of Volume XLIV (No. 12) 

 were paid for from the income of the Rumford Fund. Seven numbers 

 of the Proceedings, Volume XLIV (Nos. 18-24) are in press. 



One Memoir (Volume XIII, No. 6, pp. 217-469, plates xxxviii-lxxi) 

 has been published as the final number of Volume XIII. 



