798 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



Stebbins, of the University of Illinois, for his development of the 

 selenium photometer and its application to astronomical problems. 

 The following report of the Committee on the Amendment of 

 the Statutes was read and accepted : — 



Boston, Mass., 14 May, 1913. 

 The undersigned, a Committee to which was referred an amendment 

 to the Statutes offered at the Stated Meeting in March, has attended 

 to the duty assigned to it, and begs \eaxe to report as follows : 



Your Committee recommends that there be added to Article 4 of 

 Chapter XL, at the end, the words "The Council, in its discretion, 

 by a duly recorded vote, may delegate its authority in this regard to 

 one or more of its members." 



If the amendment is adopted by the Academy, the Article will 

 then read as follows : 



" Article 4. No report of any paper presented at a meeting of the 

 Academy shall be published by any Fellow without the consent of the 

 author; and no report shall in any case be published by any Fellow 

 in a newspaper as an account of the proceedings of the x\cademy with- 

 out the previous consent and approval of the Council. The Council, 

 in its discretion, by a duly recorded vote, may delegate its authority 

 in this regard to one or more of its members." 



Respectfully submitted, 



Henry H. Edes, 

 Joseph H. Beale, 



Committee. 



On the recommendation of the Committee, it was 



Voted, To amend the Statutes in accordance with the recom- 

 mendation contained in the foregoing report. " 



On motion of the Treasurer, it was 



Voted, To appropriate from the income of the General Fund, 

 the sum of $112., to pay for accident insurance for 1912-13, and 

 1913-14. 



On motion of the Treasurer, it was 



Voted, That the Annual Assessment be ten (10) dollars. 



The Council reported that in accordance with the provisions of 

 Article 1 of Chapter IX of the Statutes, the Reverend Dr. Timothy 

 Dwight, a P'ellow in Class III., Section 2, and the Reverend Drs. 

 William Wallace Fenn, Edward Caldwell Moore, George Herbert 

 Palmer, James Hardy Ropes, William Jewett Tucker and AYilliston 



