RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 703 



Vols. 



By gift and exchange . . . 507 

 By purchase — General P'und 35 

 By purchase — Rumford Fund 22 



Total 564 2918 251 24 3757 



21 volumes and 2 pamphlets on light and heat, recommended by the 

 Rumford Committee, were bought at an expense of $68.96. 



The expenses charged to the Library are as follows : — Miscellaneous, 

 which includes expenses in no way related to the Library, $602.27 ; 

 Binding, $324.02, General, and $40.23, Rumford Funds ; Subscriptions, 

 $274.54, General, and $113.94, Rumford Funds; making a total of 

 $1200.83 for the General and $154.07 for the Rumford Funds. An 

 appropriation of $1400 from the income of the General Fund is re- 

 quested in addition to the customary appropriation of $150 from the 

 income of the Rumford Fund for the purchase of books and periodicals. 



A. Lawrence Rotch, Librarian. 



Report of the Rumford Committee. 



At the last Annual Meeting of the Academy, May 4, 1902, the sum 

 of I^IOOO was placed at the immediate disposition of the Committee for 

 use in furtherance of research. During the year which has elapsed since 

 that date, the following grants have been made from this appropriation. 



Dec. 10, 1902. One hundred and fifty dollars to Dr. Ralph S. Minor 

 of Little Falls, N. Y., in aid of his research on the dispersion and ab- 

 sorption of substances for ultra-violet radiation. 



Jan. 14, 1903. One hundred dollars to Dr. Sidney D. Townley of 

 Berkeley, California, for the construction of a stellar photometer of the 

 ty{)e devised by Professor Pickering. 



Jan. 14, 1903. Two hundred dollars to Professor E. B. Frost for 

 the construction of a special lens for use in connection with the stellar 

 spectograph of the Yerkes Observatory to aid in the study of tlie radial 

 velocities of faint stars. 



Jan. 14, 1903. Two hundred and fifty dollars to Professors E. F. 

 Nichols and G. F. Hull of Dartmouth CoUego. in aid of their investi- 

 gation on the relative motion of the earth and the ether by the method 

 of Fizeau's polarization experiment. It was subseipiently voted (April 8 

 1903), to allow the grantees to change the a[)plicatiou of this grant to 



