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Voted, To award the Rumford Premium to Thomas Alva 

 Edison for his investigations in electric lighting. 



On the recommendation of the C. M. Warren Committee, 

 it was 



Voted, To appropriate six hundred dollars ($600) from the 

 income of the C. M. Warren Fund to C. F. Mabery, of Cleve- 

 land, Ohio, to aid him in continuing his researches on the 

 chemistr}'- of petroleum. 



On the motion of the Treasurer, it was 



Voted, That the assessment for the ensuing year be five 

 dollars (|5). 



On the recommendation of the Committee on amending the 

 statutes, it was 



Voted, To amend chapter 10, section 2, line 8, of the stat- 

 utes, by changing the word " eight " to " seven." 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



Arthur Gordon Webster, of Worcester, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class I., Section 2 (Physics). 



Arthur Michael, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow in 

 Class I., Section 3 (Chemistry). 



John Fiske, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow in 

 Class III., Section 3 (Political Economy and History). 



William Price Craighill, of Baltimore, to be an Associate 

 Fellow in Class I., Section 4 (Technology and Engineering), 

 in place of the late William Helmsley Emory. 



The annual election resulted in the choice of the following 

 officers : — 



Alexander Agassiz, President. 

 Benjamin A. Gould, Vice-President for Class I. 

 George L. Good ale, Vice-Presiderit for Class II. 

 Augustus Lowell, Vice-President for Class III. 

 Charles L. Jackson, Corresponding Secretary. 

 William Watson, Recording Secretary. 

 Eliot C. Clarke, Treasurer. 

 Henry W. Haynes, Librarian. 



