468 PUOCEEDINflS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



The Committee have had under consideration, for two years, sci- 

 entific work of great merit by various indivichiuls with reference to 

 an apjiropriate selection of a candidate for the Rumford Premium ; 

 and, after much deliberation, have come to a unanimous agree- 

 ment to recommend to the Academy the adoption uf the following 

 votes : — 



Voted, That the Rumford Premium be awarded to Professor H. A. 

 Rowland, of Baltimore, " For his researches in Light and Heat." 



Voted, That the Rumford Committee be authorized to draw upon 

 the Treasurer of the Academy for the expenses incurred in the prep- 

 aration of the gold and silver medals which constitute the Rumford 

 Premium, and charge the same against the income of the Rumford 

 Fund. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



Joseph Lovering, 

 Chairman of Rumford Committee. 



The report was accepted and the votes recommended were 

 adopted. 



On the motion of the Corresponding Secretary, it was 



Voted., That the following should be substituted in phice of 

 No. 4 of the standing votes of the Academy : — 



" One hundred extra copies of each paper published in 

 the Memoirs or Proceedings of the Academy may be sep- 

 arately printed for immediate distribution, and jjlaced at the 

 disposal of the author free of charge ; and, at the special 

 request of the author, this number may be increased to two 

 hundred." 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



George Basil Dixwell, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow 

 in Class III., Section 3. 



John William Mallet, of Charlottesville, Virginia, to be an 

 Associate Fellow in Class I., Section 3. 



Atticus Greene Ilaygood, of Oxford, Georgia, to be an As- 

 sociate Fellow in Class III., Section 1. 



Charles Adolphe Wurtz, of Paris, to be a Foreign Honor- 

 ary Member in Class I. Section 3, in place of the late Fried- 

 rich Wohler. 



