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bound at an expense of $580.15, $35.80 of this amount being 

 charged to the Rumford Fund. The total expenses for books, 

 periodicals, and binding amounted to $1,326.68. There were 

 242 books borrowed from the library by 32 persons, of whom 

 23 were Fellows of the Academy. 



The following reports were presented : — 



Report of the Rumford Committee. 



The Academy voted at the annual meeting. May, 1894, to 

 appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars from the Rumford 

 Fund to be expended at the discretion of the Rumford Com- 

 mittee in aid of investigations in Light and heat, payments 

 from this sum to be made on the order of the chairman of the 

 Committee. The Committee has made the following appro- 

 priations from this sum : — 



$250 to Professor Nichols of Cornell University for investi- 

 gations in the radiations from carbon at different temperatures. 



$250 to Professor E. H. Hall of Harvard University, in aid 

 of his investigations on the thermal conductivity of metals. 



$250 to Professor Webster of Clark University, in aid of an 

 investigation upon the relation between the velocity of light 

 waves and electrical waves. 



The Committee has also voted to approve the purchase of 

 such volumes of the Memoirs of the International Bureau of 

 Weights and Measures as are needed to complete the set in 

 the library of the Academy, and has also passed the following 

 votes : — 



Voted., To recommend to the Academy to appropriate $250 

 to Professor B. O. Peirce in further aid of his investigation 

 on the thermal conductivities of poor conductors. 



Voted., To recommend to the Academy to appropriate 

 $2,000 to the Rumford Committee to be expended at the 

 discretion of the Committee in aid of investigations in Light 

 and heat, payments from this sum to be made on the order 

 of the chairman of the Committee. 



Voted., For the second time to recommend to the Academy 

 that the Rumford Medals be awarded to Thomas A. Edison, 

 for his investigations in electric lighting. 



John Trowbridge, Chairman. 



