754 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



It was then 



Voted, That the Rumford Premium be awarded to Mr. 

 Edward Goodrich Acheson for the " Application of Heat in the 

 Electric Furnace to the Industrial Production of Carborundum, 

 Graphite, and other new and useful Substances." 



Report of the C. M. Warren Committee. 



The C. M. Warren Committee beg leave to report that during the 

 last year they have made the following grants from the C. M. Warren 

 Fund : — 



Professor Walter L. Jennings, of the Worcester Polytechnic 

 Institute for a research on the acetyl derivatives of rosaniline 

 and pararosaniline Si 00 



Dr. J. Bishop Tingle, of Johns Hopkins University, for re- 

 search on the hj^drazine derivatives of the camphor oxalic acids 50 



Mr. Richard C. Tolman, Research Laboratory of Physical 

 Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for the con- 

 struction of apparatus to be used in the measurement of the 

 difference in electrical potential between the inner and outer 

 ends of rotating tubes containing salt solutions, this apparatus 

 to be the property of the American Academy of Arts and Sci- 

 ences, and to be returned to the C. M. Warren Committee on 

 the completion of Mr. Tolman's investigations 300 



Acknowledgments of these grants and satisfactory reports of progress 

 have been received. 



Leonard P. Kinnicutt, Chairman. 



May 8, 1907. 



Report of the Publication Committee. ' 



During the last year there were published of the Proceedings three 

 numbers of Volume XLI (33-35), and twenty-six numbers of Volume 

 XLH ; also one biographical notice ; in all, 854 + v pages and eleven 

 plates. Seven numbers of Volume XLH (13, 17, 21, 22, 24, 25, and 

 26) were paid for from the income of the Rumford Fund. 



Of the Memoirs, one number (Volume XHI, No. 4, pp. 149-179, 

 plates IX-XXIV) has been published. 



Under the ruling that balances of appropriations unexpended at the 

 end of the year revert to the general funds of the Academy, and that 

 the proceeds from sales of publications are not available for the pur- 

 poses of publication except by special vote of the Academy to that 

 effect, the funds available for publication during the year just closed 



