666 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



Perchloric Acids and Lithium, Sodium and Potassium 

 Hydroxides," by T. W. Richards and A. W. Rowe. 

 No. 11. "The Technicjue of High Pressure Experimenting," 

 by P. W. Bridgman. 

 At the meeting of March 11, 1914, it was unanimously A'oted for the 

 first time and at the meeting of April 8, 1914, for the second time to 

 recommend to the Academy that the Rumford Premium be awarded 

 to William David Coolidge for his invention of Ductile Tungsten 

 and its application in the production of Radiation. 



Charles R. Cross, Chairman. 

 May 13, 1914. 



Report of the C. M. Warren Committee. 



The C. M. Warren Committee begs to report that there was an 

 unexpended balance of the appropriation for the use of the Committee 

 of S360 at the beginning of the year. In addition to this, the sum of 

 S500 was appropriated by the Academy. 



During the year three grants have been made, one an additional 

 grant of $50 to Professor E. W. Washburn, for use in connection with 

 an adiabatic calorimeter; a grant of $225 to Professor R. F. Brunei 

 for work on equilibria in organic reactions where optically active 

 radicals are concerned; and $200 to Professor S. Lawrence Bigelow 

 for study of osmotic membranes. 



The Committee has received satisfactory reports of progress from 

 most of those who have received grants from the Fund. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



H. P. Talbot, Chairman. 



May 13, 1914. 



Report or the Publication Committee. 



Between April 1, 1913, and April 1, 1914, there were published four 

 numbers of Volume XLVHI (Nos. IS to 21 inclusive), eleven numbers 

 of Volume XLIX of the Proceedings, and one IVIemoir (Volume 14, 

 No. 1) making in all 859 pages. 



There was available for the use of the Publication Committee an 

 unexpended balance from last year of $1067.04, an appropriation of 

 $2500 and an additional appropriation of $609.72, and an amount of 

 $249.86 from the sales of publications — in all, $4,425.62 from the 



