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Rkpout of the C. M. Wauuen Committee. 



The Committee in charge of the C. INI. Warren Fund has the honor 

 to report that Professor Mabery and Professor A. A. Noyes have 

 reported satisfactory progress in the work supported by grants from the 

 Fund. Professor Herty, owing to an. unforeseen change of occupation, 

 is unable to coniinue his work on platinum, and will return the money 

 granted him. 



The Committee recommends the following grants from the C. M. 

 Warren Fund for this year : — 



C. F. Mabery, of Cleveland, $300.00 for the continuation of his 

 researches on Petroleum. 



A. A. Noyes, of Boston, $300.00 for the continuation of his work on 

 the qualitative analysis of the rare elements. 



H. O. Hofman, of Boston, $160.00 for a research on the decomposition 



of sulphate of zinc. 



C. L. Jackson, Chairman. 



Report of the Committee of Publication. 



The Publishing Committee begs leave to report that there have been 

 issued during the last academic year one number of Vol. XXXVI. and 

 twenty-one numbers of Vol. XXXVII. of the Proceedings, aggregating 

 648 pages and 15 plates. 



Three numbers of the current volume (82 pp. and 2 pi.) were printed 

 at the cost of the Rumford Fund ($417.51). The expense of printing 

 fallino- on the General Fund was $2095.59 ; the appropriation was 

 . $2400, and the returns from sales $138.59, leaving an unexpended 

 balance of $443. The Committee recommends for the ensuing year the 

 usual appropriation of $2400. An exjiensive memoir, closing Vol. XII., 



is in press. 



For the Committee, 



Samuel II. Scudder, Chairman. 

 Boston, May 14, 1902. 



On the recommendation of the Committee of Finance, it was 

 Voted, To make the following appropriations from the in- 

 come of the General Fund for expenditures during the ensuing 

 year : — 



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