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Eight hundred and thirty-fourth Meeting. 



June 11, 1890. — Adjourned Annual Meeting. 



The Peesident in the chair. 



The report of the Council was read and accepted. 



The following report was read : — 



The Rumford Committee present the following brief report 

 for the year ending with the annual meeting of 1890. 



1. The Committee have had under consideration several 

 applications for grants from the income of the Rumford 

 Fund, to assist in meeting the expense of original investiga- 

 tions relating to light or heat. They have acted favorably 

 upon only one of these applications, and their report upon, 

 it was approved by the Academy on October 5, 1889. 



2. The Committee have also given much time to the dis- 

 cussion of the relative claims of various suitable candidates 

 for the Rumford Medal ; but they are not yet prepared to 

 make any recommendation upon that subject. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Joseph Lovering, Chairman. 

 June 11, 1890. 



The report of the committee appointed to consider a pro- 

 posed change in the statutes as they affect annual asssess- 

 ments was read and accepted. 



On the motion of the Corresponding Secretary it was 



Voted, That a committee, consisting of the Recording 

 Secretary and Messrs. H. W. Williams and H. G. Denny, 

 be appointed for the better ordering of the meetings of the 

 Academy. 



Remarks upon the subject were made by Judge Nathaniel 

 Holmes, Dr. Williams, and the Recording Secretary. 



The President appointed the following standing commit- 

 tees : — 



Committee of Publication. 



JosiAH P. Cooke, William G. Faelow, 



John C. Ropes. 



