90 STATUTES OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



CHAPTER VII. 

 Of Fellows. 



1. No person shall be elected a Fellow of the Academy, unless proposed and recommended by- 

 one or more Fellows, who shall subscribe their names to the recommendation upon the nomination- 

 list. The name shall stand on the nomination-list at least during the interval between two statute 

 meetings, previous to the election. Three fourths of the votes given shall be necessary to constitute 

 a majority for the admission of a member ; and when three fourths shall amount to less than seven, 

 then seven votes shall be necessar}'. Should any person, on balloting, not be admitted, his name 

 shall be removed from the nomination-list: but may at any future period be placed upon it 

 again for a new nomination. 



2. Each FeUow residing in the State of Massachusetts shall pay annually two dollars to the 

 Academy. 



CHAPTER \^II. 



Ox Literary Performances. 



1. The Academy will never express its judgment on literary performances or memoirs submitted 

 to it. 



2. The President, Vice-President, and Secretaries, with such others as the Academy may see fit 

 to join, shall constitute a Committee of Publications, to which Committee all memoirs submitted to 

 the Academy, shall be referred. 



RUMFORD PREMIUM. 



In conformity with the last will of Benjamin Count Rumford, granting a certain fund to the 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of a decree of the Supreme Judicial Court for 

 carrying into effect the general charitable intent and purpose of Count Rumford, as expressed in 

 his said will, the Academy is empowered to make from the income of said fund, as it now exists, 

 at any annual meeting, an award of a gold and silver medal, being together of the intrinsic value of 

 three hundred dollars, as a premium, to the author of any important discovery or useful improve- 

 ment on light or on heat, wliich shall have been made and published by printing, or in any way 

 made known to the public, in any part of the Continent of America, or any of the American Islands ; 

 preference being always given to such discoveries as shall, in the opinion of the Academy, tend most 

 to promote the good of mankind ; and to add to such medals, as a further premium for such dis- 

 covery and improvement, if the Academy see fit so to do, a sum of money not exceeding three 

 hundred dollars. 



For this purpose a standing Committee is appointed annually by the Academy in May, to 

 consider and report on all applications for the Rumford Premium. 



