822 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



On recommendation of the Riimford Committee, it was 



Voted, To award Rumford Premium to Percy Williams Bridg- 



man, of Cambridge, ]\Iass., for his Thermod^'namical Researches 



at Extremely High Pressures. 



The annual election resulted in the choice of the following officers 



and committees: — 



Charles P. Bowditch, President. 

 Elihu Thomson, Vice-President for Class I. 

 WiLLi.^Jvi M. Davis, Vice-President for Class 11. 

 George F. INIoore, Vice-President for Class III. 

 Harry W. Tyler, Corresponding Secretary. 

 Wm. Sturgis Bigelow, Recording Secretary. 

 Henry H. Edes, Treasurer. 

 Arthur G. Webster, Librarian. 



Councillors for Four Years. 



Henry Lefavour, of Class I. 

 WiLLLiM T. Sedgwick, of Class II. 

 Barrett Wendell, of Class III. 



Finance Committee. 



Henry P. Walcott, John Trow^bridge, 



George V. Leverett. 



Rumford Committee. 



Charles R. Cross, Arthur G. Webster, 



Edward C. Pickering, Arthur A. Noyes, 



Louis Bell, Elihu Thomson, 



Theodore Lyman. 



C. M. Warren Committee. 



Henry P. Talbot, Charles L. Jackson, 



Walter L. Jennings, Arthur D. Little, 



Arthur A. Noyes, Gregory P. B.^^lxter, 



William H. Walker. 



