794 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



The Committee voted to transfer to Professor Edward L. 

 Nichols of Cornell University the unexpended balance of the 

 appropriation ($100) made to Professor Willard J. Fisher in 

 1908 for his research on the " Viscosity of Gases," together with 

 the apparatus used by him, as Professor Fisher is not likely to be 

 able to continue the research. 



November 13, 1912, to G. W. Ritchey of Pasadena, for the 

 construction of a reflecting telescope employing mirrors with 

 new forms of curves . $500 



November 13, 1912, as modified May 14, 1913, to Professor 

 Edward L. Nichols of Cornell University, in aid of the research 

 of Mr. W. P. Roop on the " Effect of Temperature on the Mag- 

 netic Susceptibility of Gases 250 



May 14, 1913, to Frederick G. Keyes of the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, to be used for the payment of assis- 

 tants in the computation of thermodynamic tables' for ammonia 300 



It was also voted at this meeting, in accordance with the 

 desire of the Council of the Academy, that an appropriation of 

 $100 be made to Professor Theodore W. Richards to be used in 

 aid of the publication of the Annual International Table of Con- 

 stants 100 



The following papers have been published in Volume 48 of the 

 Proceedings of the Academy with aid from the Rumford Fund since 

 the last annual meeting. 



No. 1. " On the Ultra Violet Component in Artificial Light." By 

 Louis Bell. 



No. 5. " A Study with the Echelon Spectroscope of Certain Lines 

 in the Spectra of the Zinc Arc and Spark at Atmospheric 

 Pressure." By Norton A. Kent. 

 • No. 9. " Thermodynamic Properties of Liquid Water to 80° and 

 12000 kgrn." By Percy W. Bridgman. 



No. 15. "An Electric Heater and Automatic Thermostat." By 

 Arthur L. Clark, 



The Committee has also prepared and caused to be printed a pam- 

 phlet Supplement to the publication entitled "The Rumford Fund" 

 published in 1905, which contains the record of the awards of the 

 Premium and of researches and papers aided from the Fund to the 

 close of the year of the Academy ending May 8, 1912, together with 

 some other matters of permanent interest. 



The necessary photographs or other fac-simile copies of the inscrip- 



