Viii STATUTES OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



STANDING VOTES. 



1. Communications of which notice has been given to the Secretary shall take precedence of 

 those not so notified. 



2. Resident Fellows who have paid all fees and dues chargeable to them are entitled to re- 

 ceive one copy of each volume or article printed by the Academy, on application to the Libra- 

 rian personally or by written order, within two years from the date of publication. 



3. Resident Fellows may borrow and have out from the Library six volumes at any one 

 time, and may retain the same for three months, and no longer. 



4. Upon special application, and for adequate reasons assigned, the Librarian may permit a 

 larger number of volumes, not exceeding twelve, to be drawn from the Library, for a limited 

 period. 



5. Works published in numbers, when unbound, shall not be taken from the Hall of the 

 Academy, except by special leave of the Librarian. 



6. The annual assessment upon Resident Fellows shall be five dollars, until otherwise ordered. 



7. The annual meeting shall be holden at half past three o'clock, P. M. The other stated 

 meetings at half past seven o'clock, P. M. 



8. A meeting for receiving and discussing scientific communications shall be held on the sec- 

 ond Tuesday of each month, excepting the three summer months. 



R U M F O R D PREMIUM. 



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

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and with 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 ex- 

 ists, 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 

 improvement in light or in heat, which 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 Amer- 

 ican islands ; preference being always given to such discoveries as shall, in the opinion of the 

 Academy, tend most to promote the good of manldnd ; and to add to such medals, as a further 

 premium for such discovery and improvement, if the Academy see fit so to do, a sum of money 

 not exceeding three hundred dollars. 



