RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 861 



In accordance with the recommendation in the foregoing report it 

 was 



Voted, To appropriate for the purposes named the following sums : — 

 From the General Fund, $5,398.34. 

 From the income of the Publication Fund, $2,500. 

 From the income of the Rumford Fund, $2,600. 

 From the income of the Warren Fund, $500. 

 On the recommendation of the Rumford Committee, it was 

 Voted, To award the Rumford Premium to Frederic Eugene Ives for 

 his Optical Inventions, particularly in Color Photography and Photo- 

 engraving. 



The following report was read : — 



Your Committee, appointed to consider and report on the Amend- 

 ment to the Statutes offered at the March meeting, respectfully 

 report, — 



They advise the adoption of the Amendment, as follows : — 

 Omit Paragraph 2 of Article 6 of Chapter IX and insert the 

 following : — 



" A Report from the Council shall be submitted to the Academy, for 

 action, at the March meeting, recommending the appropriations which 

 in the opinion of the Council should be made." 



Charles P. Bowditch, 

 Henry H. Edes, 



Committee. 



On the motion of Mr. Bowditch, it was 



Voted, To adopt the amendment as reported. 



Upon motion of Mr. Lanman, it was 



Voted, 1. That among the volumes kept upon the shelves of 

 the Reading Room there be included one set of the publications 

 of this Academy, complete from the beginning; and also any 

 other such volumes as throw light upon the history and activ> 

 ities of the Academy. 



2. That the Librarian be requested to give efiPect to this vote 

 as soon as that may conveniently be done. 



The annual election resulted in the choice of the following 

 officers and committees : — 



John Trowrridge, President. 

 Elihu Thomson, Vice-President for Class I. 

 Henry P. Walcott, Vice-President for Class II. 

 A. Lawrence Lowell, Vice-President for Class III. 



