RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 705 



INIuy 13, 1903. To request the Academy to appropriate from the 

 income of the Rumford Fund the sum of fifty dohars for cataloguing 

 books and periodicals in the library of the Academy relating to light 

 and heat. 



Reports upon the progress of investigations aided by grants from the 

 Rumford Fund have been received from Messrs. A. L. Clark, E. B. 

 Frost, G. E. Hale, F. A. Laws, R. S. Minor, E. F. Nichols, A. A. 

 Noyes, E. C. Pickering, T. W. Richards, S. D. Townley, R. W. Wood. 



The Committee has considered the claims of a number of persons for 

 the Rumford Premium but has decided to make no recommendation for 

 an award this year. 



Chas. R. Cross, Chairman. 



Report of the C. M. Warren Committee. 



The C. M. Warren Committee has the honor to report that Professor 

 Mabery and Pi'ofessor A. A. Noyes have reported satisfactory progress 

 in the work assisted by grants from the Warren Fund. 



They regret to be obliged to announce that Professor Charles L. 

 Jackson, owing to pressure of work, felt obliged to resign the Chairman- 

 ship of the Committee. 



Professor Leonard P. Kinnicutt was elected Chairman to fill the 

 vacancy caused by Pi'ofessor Jackson's resignation. 



The Committee recommends the following appropriations from the 

 income of the C. M. Warren Fund : — 



To Professor C. F. Mabery, Case School of Applied Science, Cleve- 

 land, O., to complete his researches on petroleum, for which work he 

 lias already received various grants from the C. M. Warren Fund, three 

 hundred dollars. 



To Profes.sor 11. O. Hofman, IMassachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 Boston, Mass., to complete his research on the decomposition of zinc 

 sulphate, for which work one hundred and sixty dollars was granted last 

 year, three hundred and fifty dollars. 



To Dr. Samuel P. INIulliken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 Boston, Mass., to assist him in continuing his investigation on a sys- 

 tematic procedure for the identification of compounds of carbon contain- 

 ing hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen ; Professor C. L. Jackson dissenting, 

 five hundred dollars. 



Leonaiu) p. Kinnicutt, Chairman. 

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