796 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



Report of the Publication Committee. 



Between April 1, 1912, and April 1, 1913, there were published one 

 number of Volume XLVII (No. 22) and seventeen numbers of Volume 

 XLVIII of the Proceedings. There were also published two obituary 

 notices. The total publication for this period amounted to 771 pages. 

 The expense of publishing three of these numbers and a part of a 

 fourth number has been assumed by the Rumford Committee. 



There was available for the use of the Publication Committee an 

 unexpended balance from last year of $428.70, an appropriation of 

 $2500, and an additional appropriation of $800, and an amount of 

 $560.35 from the sales of publications — in all, $4289.05 from the 

 Publication fund and sales. Bills against this appropriation to the 

 amount of $3267.53 have been approved by the Chairman. This 

 leaves an unexpended balance of $1021.52. 



Bills aggregating $555.05, incun-ed in publishing papers on light 

 and heat, have been referred to the Rumford Committee for payment 

 in accordance with their authorization. 



G. W. Pierce, Chairman. 

 May 14, 1913. 



Report of the House Committee. 



The House Committee submits the following Report for the year 

 1912-1913: The Committee had at its disposal a balance of $108.54 

 from last year. The appropriations by the Academy for the past 

 year have been $2240, making a total of $2348.54 for the use of the 

 Committee. Of this sum, $2348.32 has been expended. These 

 expenditures include approximately $500 which may properly be 

 regarded as unusual expenditures incidental to the establishment of 

 the Academy in its new house. The larger of the latter items are 

 those for window screens, the electric lamp bulbs for the entire 

 building, the installation of a telephone and electrically operated lock 

 on the front doors, alterations in the electric lighting of the stack and 

 stack rooms, additional shelving and cupl)oards, a residual payment 

 of rental at 711 Boylston St., and the cost of moving. While certain 

 additions to equipment, and some repairs, will necessarily be made 

 every year, the amount of expenditures for equipment should be 

 materially less than during the past year. 



The Academy has held se\'en regular and two special meetings in 

 the building since May, 1912. The small rooms have also been used 

 for eight Council and ten committee meetings. 



