742 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



On the recommendation of the Rumford Committee, it was 

 Voted, To award the Rumford Premium to Professor Robert 



W. Wood for his discoveries in light, and particularly for his 



researches on the optical properties of sodium and other metallic 



vapors. 



The annual election resulted in the choice of the following 



officers and committees : — 



John Trowbridge, President. 

 Elihtt Thomson, Vice-President for Class I. 

 Henry P. Walcott, Vice-President for Class U. 

 John C. Gray, Vice-President for Class III. 

 Edwin H. Hall, Corresponding Secretary. 

 Willtam Watson, Recording Secretary. 

 Charles P. Bowditch, Treasurer. 

 A. Lawrence Rotch, Librarian. 



Councillors for Three Years. 



William R. Livermore, of Class I. 

 Theobald Smith, of Class II. 

 Charles R. Lanman, of Class III. 



Finance Committee. 



John Trowbridge, 

 Eliot C. Clarke, 

 Francis Bartlett. 



Rumford Committee. 



Charles R. Cross, Arthur G. Webster, 



Edward C. Pickering, Elihu Thomson, 

 Erasmus D. Leavitt, Theodore W. Richards, 



Louis Bell. 



C. M. Warren Committee. 



Leonard P. Kinnicutt, Theodore W. Richards, 

 Henry P. Talbot, Arthur A. Noyes, 



Charles R. Sanger, George D. Moore, 



James F. Norris. 



