RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 571 



Dr. J. Elliott Gilpin, Johns Hopkins University, for the 

 study of the nature and source of petroleum $100 



Dr. E. W. Washburn, University of Illinois, for the construc- 

 tion of an adiabatic calorimeter for the measurement of heats of 

 dilution and of solution 150 



The research by Professor A. W. Foote, of Yale University, on the 

 " Nature of Precipitated Colloids," in aid of which a grant of $300 was 

 made by the Warren Committee in 1909, has been published. 



Reports of progress have been received from Dr. Frederic Bonnet, 

 Jr., and from Dr. J. Elliott Gilpin in regard to researches for which 

 money has been contributed from the Warren Fund, and the results of 

 both these investigations it is hoped will be published during the com- 

 ing year. 



Leonard P. Kinnicutt, Chairman. 



May 11, 1910. 



Report of the Publication Committee. 



Between May 1, 1909, and May 1, 1910, there were published nine 

 numbers of Volume XLIV. (Nos. 18-26) and fifteen numbers of Vol- 

 ume XLV. of the Proceedings. In Volume XLIV. there were included 

 two biographical notices. The total publication amounted to 714 -\- v 

 pages, with four plates, of which three numbers (Nos. 8, 9, 10 of 

 Volume XLV.) have been paid for by the income of the Rumford Fund. 



Five numbers of the Proceedings are in press, of which one number 

 (No. 18) has been authorized by the Rumford Committee to be 

 published at the expense of the Rumford Fund. 



There was available for the use of the Committee on Publication an 

 unexpended balance from last year of $110.96, an appropriation of 

 $2500, and an amount of $378.55 from the sale of publications up to 

 March 4, 1910, — in all $2989.51 from the Publication Fund. Bills 

 against this fund to the amount of $2545.02 have been approved by 

 the Chairman of the Committee, and have been submitted to the 

 Treasurer. This leaves an unexpended balance of $444.49. 



Bills aggregating $388.48, incurred in publishing Rumford papers, 

 have been forwarded to the Rumford Committee. 



G. W. Pierce, Acting Chairman. 



May 11, 1910. 



Report of the House Committee. 



During the year 1909-10 the House has been occupied as heretofore 

 with the exception of the first floor, which has been vacant since 



