704 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



an investigation of the effect of the motion of the earth on the intensity 

 of radiation. 



Feb. 11, 1903. One hundred and fifty dollars to Professor E. C. 

 Pickering for the construction of two stellar photometers to be placed 

 at the disposal of the Committee. It was furthermore voted that one 

 of these be placed at the disposal of the Rev. Edmund Goetz, Director 

 of the Southern Station of the Georgetown College Observatory. 



The following votes have also been passed by the Committee : — 



Dec. 10, 1902. That the Academy be recommended to appropriate 

 one hundred dollars from the income of the Rumford Fund for the 

 preparation of a catalogue of the books on light and heat in the library 

 of the Academy, this being the second appropriation for the purpose. 



Jan. 14, 1903. To recommend to the Academy the transfer of the 

 appropriation of seven hundred and fifty dollars voted to Professor 

 Theodore W. Richards at the Annual Meeting of 1902, toward the 

 prosecution of an extended series of researches on the thermo-dynamics 

 of substances involved in chemical reactions. 



Jan. 14, 1903. To recommend to the Academy the appropriation of 

 three hundred dollars from the income of the Rumford Fund to Pro- 

 fessor George E. Hale of the Yerkes Observatory for the purchase of a 

 Rowland concave grating to be used in the photographic study of the 

 spectra of the brigliter stars. 



These recommendations were acted upon favorably by the Academy. 



April 8, 1903. To request the Academy to appropriate from the 

 income of the Rumford Fund the sum of seventy-five dollars to Mr. 

 F. L. Bishop of the Bradley Polytechnic Institute in aid of his investi- 

 gation on the thermal conductivity of lead ; and also to appropriate the 

 sum of two hundred dollars to Professor Frederick A. Saunders of 

 the Syracuse University in aid of an investigation on the characteristics 

 of the spectra produced under varying conditions, as specified in his 

 application. 



Feb. 11, 1903. To ask the Academy to appropriate from the income 

 of the Rumford Fund the sum needed to purchase and bind certain 

 books upon light and heat. 



April 8, 1903. To ask the Academy to appropriate from the income 

 of the Rumford Fund the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars for the 

 purchase and binding of periodicals. 



April 8, 1903. To request the Academy to appropriate the sum of 

 one thousand dollars from the income of the Rumford Fund for the 

 immediate needs of the Committee in furtherance of research. 



