748 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



and $104.65, Rumford, Funds ; making a total of $799.54 for the Gen- 

 eral, and $149.35 for the Rumford, Funds as the cost of binding and 

 subscrii^tions. 



A. Lawrence Rotch, Librarian. 

 May 8, 1907. 



Report op the Rumford Committee. 



During the past year the Committee has made the followiag grants 

 in aid of research, from the amount placed at its disposal by the 

 Academy for that purpose. 



Oct. 10, 1906. Professor Arthur A. Noyes, of the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, for the construction of a calorimeter for the 

 determination of heats of reaction at high temperatures . . . $300 



Professor R. W. "Wood, of the Johns Hopkins University, 

 for the purchase of quartz lamps (additional appropriation) . 200 



Nov. 14, 1906. Professor Norton A. Kent, of Boston Uni- 

 versity, for the continuation of work on spectral lines (addi- 

 tional appropriation) 75 



Professor L. R. IngersoU, of the University of Wisconsin, for 

 an investigation of the Kerr Effect in the infra red rays . . . 200 



Professor Frederick E. Kester, of the Ohio State University, 

 for a research on the thermal properties of gases flowing 

 through porous plugs (additional appropriation) 315 



March 13, 1907. Dr. Harry W. Morse, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, for his research on fluorescence (additional appropriation) . 400 



'Since the last Annual Meeting papers as follows have been published 

 at the expense of the Rumford Fund. Two additional papers are now 

 in press. 



" Dispersion in Electric Double Refraction." H. L. Blackwell, i\Iay, 

 1906. 



"The Thermal Conductivity of Lead." F. L. Bishop, May, 1906. 



" Fluorescence and Magnetic Rotation Spectra of Sodium Vapor, and 

 their Analysis." R. W. Wood, November, 1906. 



" Expansion and Compressibility of Ether and of Alcohol in the 

 Neighborhood of their Boiling Points." A. W. Smith, January, 1907. 



" Concerning the Adiabatic Determination of the Heats of Combustion 

 of Organic Substances, especially Sugar and Benzol." T. W. Richards 

 and Messrs. Henderson and Frevert. March, 1907. 



" On the Thomson Effect and the Temperature Coefficient of Thermal 

 Conductivity in Soft Iron between 115° and 204° C." E. H. Hall and 

 Messrs. Campbell, Serviss, and Churchill. March, 1907. 



