OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. £69 



Rumford Committee. 



WOLCOTT GlBBS, STEPHEN P. RuGGLES, 



Edward C. Pickering, John Trowbridge, 

 John M. Ordway, Josiah P. Cooke, Jr., 



Joseph Lovering. 



Member of Finance Committee. 

 Thomas T. Bouve. 



The Treasurer, Corresponding Secretary, and Librarian 

 were appointed a committee to consider the appropriations 

 from the Academy's funds for the ensuing year. 



On the motion of Professor Cooke, it was 



Voted, To meet, on adjournment, at half-past seven o'clock, 

 P. M., on June 11th. 



Seven hundred and twenty-third Meeting. 



June 11, 1879. — Adjourned Annual Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



Professor Lovering presented the Report of the Rumford 

 Committee. 



Professor Lovering also presented the following votes of 

 the Rumford Committee : — 



" Voted, To recommend to the Academy to charge to the 

 Rumford Fund the expenses incurred for the following jour- 

 nals during the years 1872-77, inclusive : Poggendorff's 

 Annalen and Beiblatter ; Comptes Rendus ; Philosophical 

 Magazine ; Carl's Repertorium ; Journal de Physique ; Fort- 

 schritte der Physik ; Dingler's Journal ; Franklin Journal ; 

 Annales de Chimie ; Quarterly Journal of Microscopical 

 Science ; and Philadelphia Photographer." 



" Voted, That, in consideration of the time of the Assistant 

 Librarian spent in the service of the Rumford Committee 

 between 1872-78, the committee recommend that the Treas- 

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