342 PROCEEDINGS OP THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Report of the O. 31. Warren Committee. 



8 May, 1895. 

 In behalf of the C. M. Warren Committee, I have to report 

 that during the past year a grant of six hundred dolhirs ($600) 

 has been made to Professor C. F. Maber}-, of Cleveland, Ohio, 

 in aid of his investigation of American and Canadian Petro- 

 leums, and a grant of two hundred dollars (1200) to Profes- 

 sor F. C. Phillips, of Allegheny, Pa., in furtherance of his 

 researches on Natural Gas. 



F. H. Storer, Chairman. 



A report of the Committee of Finance was read and 

 accepted. 



On the recommendation of the Cpmmittee of Finance, 

 it was 



Voted., To appropriate nineteen hundred dollars (-^1,900) 

 for general expenses. 



Voted., That an appropriation of thirteen hundred dollars 

 ($1,300) be made to the Librarian, and that this appropriation 

 cover also the petty expenses of the Assistant Librarian. 



Voted., That an appropriation of eighteen hundred dol- 

 lars ($1800) be made for Volume XXX. of the Proceedings, 

 now in press, provided that a part of this sum be expended 

 for plates. 



Voted, That an appropriation of four hundred dollars ($400) 

 be made to be used in the preparation of the plates and print- 

 insT the text of Roland Thaxter's Memoir on the Laboulbeni- 

 acese. 



On the recommendation of the Rumford Committee, it was 



Voted., To appropriate the sum of two hundred and fifty 

 dollars ($250) from the income of the Rumford Fund to B. O. 

 Peirce, in further aid of his investigation on the thermal con- 

 ductivities of poor conductors. 



Voted., To appropriate from the income of the Rumford 

 Fund the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000), to be ex- 

 pended at the discretion of the Rumford 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. 



