records of meetings. 859 



Report of the C. M. Warren Committee. 



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

 year grants have been made as follows : — 



To Dr. S. F. Acree, Johns Hopkins University, for the study 

 of the physical and chemical properties of pure ethyl alcohol . $200 



To Professor H. G. Byers, University of Washington, for work 

 upon passivity of metals 250 



To Professor W. D. Harkins, University of Montana, for work 

 upon the energy relations in a surface between two liquid phases 300 



To Dr. Latham Clark, Harvard University, for work on the 

 paraffin hydrocarbons 150 



Reports have been received from the various recipients of the grants 

 from the Warren Fund, indicating the progress which is being made 

 upon the researches not yet completed. 



The Committee has suffered a serious loss in the death of Professor 



Charles R. Sanger, who has for many years taken a marked interest in 



this work. The members of the Committee desire to record their 



sense of personal loss which Professor Sanger's death occasions. 



H. P. Talbot, Chairman. 

 May 8, 1912. 



Report of the Publication Committee. 



Between May 1, 1911, and April 1, 1912, there were published seven 

 numbers of Volume XL VI. (Nos. 19-25) and twenty-one numbers of 

 Volume XLVn. of the Proceedings. The total publication amounted 

 to 1001 pages. The expense of publishing five numbers and a part of 

 a sixth has been assumed by the Rumford Committee. 



There was available for the use of the Publication Committee an 

 unexpended balance from last year of $375.72, an appropriation of 

 $2500 and an additional appropriation of $500, and an amount of 

 $33.99 from the sale of publications up to March 4th — in all $3409.71 

 from the Publication Fund and Sales. Bills against this appropriation 

 to the amount of $2981.08 have been approved by the Chairman of 

 the Publication Committee, and have been submitted to the Treasurer. 

 This leaves an unexpended balance of $428.63. 



Bills aggregating .$756.53, incurred in publishing papers on light 

 and heat, have been referred to the Rumford Committee for payment 

 in accordance with their authorization. 



G. W. Piebce, Chairman. 



May 8, 1912. 



