568 Statutes of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
2. A committee of three persons, to be called the Committee on Publica- 
tions, shall be chosen at each annual meeting, and to them all memoirs sub- 
mitted 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 de- 
cree of the Supreme Judicial Court for carrying into effect the general chari- 
table 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, 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 on light or on 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 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 discovery 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 Acad- 
emy, in May, to consider and report on all applications for the Rumford Pre- 
mium. 
