730 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



have been published in the Proceedings at the expense of the Rumford 

 Fund : 



Vol. 46, No. 4. " Note on Kirchoff's Law." By G. C. Evans. 



Vol. 46, No. 11. "On the Equilibrium of the System consisting of 

 Calcium Carbide, Calcium Cyanamide, Carbon, and Nitrogen." By 

 M. DeK. Thompson and R. H. Lombard. 



Vol. 46, No. 19. "A Method for Determining Heat of Evaporation 

 as applied to Water." By T. W. Richards and J. H. Mathews. 



Vol. 46, No. 23. " On the Electromagnetic and the Thermomag- 

 netic Transverse and Longitudinal Effects in Soft Iron." By E. H. 

 Hall and L. L. Campbell. 



Vol. 46, No. 24. " On the Opacity of Certain Glasses for the Ultra- 

 violet." By L. Bell. 



On October 12, it was voted that the Chairman of the Committee be 

 requested to bring up to date the pamphlet concerning the Rumford 

 Fund, published by the Academy in 1905, 



The endeavors of the Committee to procure fac-simile copies of the 

 inscriptions upon the reverse of the Rumford Medals awarded prior to 

 1899, in order that replicas in bronze may be made, have been success- 

 ful. All but one of the medals have been located and photographs or 

 plaster casts of these are gradually being secured. Since the date 

 mentioned, a bronze replica of each medal awarded has been made at 

 the same time as those to be presented. 



Reports of progress in their respective researches which have been 

 aided from the Rumford Fund have been received from Messrs. P. W. 

 Bridgman, W. W. Campbell, A. L. Clark, D. F. Comstock, W. J. Fisher, 

 E. B. Frost, L. J. Henderson, L. R. Ligersoll, N. A. Kent, F. E. Kes- 

 ter, G. N. Lewis, C. E. Mendenhall, C. L. Norton, J. A. Parkhurst, 

 T. W. Richards, M. A. Rosanoff, F. A. Saunders, J. Stebbins, M. DeK. 

 Thompson, and F. W. Very. 



At a meeting of the Committee held on January 1 1, it was unan- 

 imously voted for the first time and at a meeting held on February 8, 

 for the second time, to recommend to the Academy the award of the 

 Rumford Premium to Professor James Mason Crafts, for his researches 

 in high temperature themometry and the exact determination of new 

 fixed points on the thermometric scale. 



Charles R. Cross, Chairman. 

 May 10, 1911. 



Report of the C. M. Warren Committee. 



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

 year an additional grant of $50 has been made to Dr. J. Elliot Gilpin, 



