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of Johns Hopkins University, for a continuation of his work upon the 

 "Study of the Nature and Source of Petroleum." 



Dr. Gilpin has presented a somewhat extended report of work al- 

 ready accomplished, and has outlined his plans for future investigations. 



During the year Professor James F. Norris has published his work 

 on the " Structure of Triphenylmethyl," in aid of which a grant of $250 

 was made by the Warren Committee in 1908. 



Reports have been received from Dr. Frederic Bonnet, Jr., Professor 

 W. L. Jennings, and Dr. E. W. Washburn, regarding the progress of 

 researches for which grants have been made from the Warren Fund. 

 None of these researches is as yet sufficiently advanced to permit pub- 

 lication of results. 



The Committee has suffered a severe loss during the past year in the 

 removal by death of Dr. Leonard Parker Kinnicutt, for many years one 

 of its most active members, and for the past few years its chairman. 

 The members of the Committee desire to record their sense of apprecia- 

 tion of the efficient service which Dr. Kinnicutt rendered to the Acad- 

 emy, and their sense of personal loss in the termination of his helpful 

 and genial companionship. 



H. P. Talbot, Chairman. 



May 10, 1911. 



Report of the Publication Committee. 



Between May 1, 1910, and May 1, 1911, there were published six 

 numbers of Volume XLV. (Nos. 16-21) and twenty-four numbers of 

 Volume XL VI. of the Proceedings. The total publication amounted 

 to 912 + iv pages, with twelve plates. Of these publications, six num- 

 bers (No. 18, Vol. XLV., and Nos. 4, 11, 19, 23, and 24 of Vol. XLVL) 

 have been authorized by the Rumford Committee to be published at the 

 expense of the Rumford Fund. 



There was available for use of the Committee on Publication an un- 

 expended balance from last year of $444.49, together with an appro- 

 priation of $3,000, and an amount of $23.88 from sales of publications 

 between March 4 and May 1, 1910, and $312.14 from sales between 

 May 1, 1910, and March 3, 1911, —in all, $3,780.51 from the Publica- 

 tion Fund. Bills against this fund to the amount of $3,425.43 have 

 been approved by the Chairman of the Committee, and have been 

 submitted to the Treasurer. This leaves an unexpended balance of 

 $354.68. 



Bills aggregating $387.50 incurred in publishing Rumford papers, 

 have been forwarded to the Rumford Committee. 



G. W. Pierce, Chairman. 



May 10, 1911. 



