570 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



It was voted on February 9, 1910, that the sum of $250 be granted 

 to Professor Gilbert N. Lewis, in aid of the preparation of abstracts 

 of publications on light and heat for the forthcoming International 

 Physico-chemical Tables. 



On March 9, 1910, it was voted to appropriate the sum of $100 for 

 the purchase and binding of periodicals for the library, a consider- 

 able number of back volumes of several periodicals including a complete 

 set of the Physikalische Zeitschriffc having been secured : this sum to 

 be paid from the amount available for" use at the discretion of the 

 Committee. 



The following papers have been published in the Proceedings of the 

 Academy during the present year at the expense of the Rumford 

 Fund. 



Vol. 45, No. 8. " On the Applicability of the Law of Corresponding 

 States to the Joule-Thomson Effect in Water and Carbon Dioxide." 

 By Harvey N. Davis. 



Vol. 45, No. 9. " Notes on Certain Thermal Properties of Steam." 

 By Harvey N. Davis. 



Vol. 45, No. 10. "The Spectrum of a Carbon Compound in the 

 Region of Extremely Short Wave-Lengths." By Theodore Lyman. 



Vol. 45, No. 18. " On the Equilibrium of the System consisting of 

 Lime, Carbon, Calcium Carbide and Carbon Monoxide." By Maurice 

 De K. Thompson. 



Reports of the progress of researches which have been aided by 

 grants from the Rumford Fund have been received from Messrs P- W. 

 Bridgman, W. W. Campbell, A. L. Clark, W. J. Fisher, E. B. Frost, 

 L. R. Ingersoll, N. A. Kent, F. E. Kester, C. E. Mendenhall, R. S. 

 Minor, J. A. Parkhurst, M. A. Rosanoff, F. A. Saunders, J. Stebbins, 

 F. A. Very. 



At a meeting of the Committee held on February 9th, it was unan- 

 imously voted for the first time, and at a meeting held on March 9th, 

 for the second time, to recommend to the Academy, the award of the 

 Rumford Premium to Charles Gordon Curtis for his improvements in 

 the utilization of heat as work in the steam-turbine. 



Charles R. Cross, Chairman. 



May 11, 1910. 



Report of the C. M. Warren Committee. 



The C. M. Warren Committee beg leave to report that grants have 

 been made during the past year to the following persons, in aid of the 

 researches specified : — 



