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1882. WILLIAM DE WIVELESLIE ABNEY. Contributions to the 

 Advancement of the Theory and Practice of Photog- 

 raphy. 



1884. TOBIAS ROBERT THALEN. Spectroscopic Researches. 



1886. SAMUEL PIERPONT LANGLEY. Researches on the Spectrum 

 by means of the Bolometer. 



1888. PIETRO TACCHINI. Important and long-continued Inves- 

 tigations which have largely advanced our Knowledge 

 of the Physics of the Sun. 



1890. HEINRICH HERTZ. Work on Electro- magnetic Radiation. 



1892. NILS CHRISTOFER DUNER. Astronomical Observations. 



1894. JAMES DEWAR. Researches at very high and very low Tem- 

 peratures, and on Spectroscopic Phenomena. 



1896. PHILIPP LENARD AND WILHELM KONRAD RONTGEN. Re- 

 searches on Phenomena which occur outside a highly 

 exhausted Tube through which an Electrical Discharge 

 is passing. 



1898. OLIVER JOSEPH LODGE. Researches on Radiation and on 

 the Relations between Matter and Ether. 



1900. ANTOINE HENRI BECQUEREL. Discoveries in Radiation 

 proceeding from Uranium. 



1902. CHARLES ALGERNON PARSONS. Application of the Steam 

 Turbine to Industrial Purposes and its recent Extension 

 to Navigation. 



1904. ERNEST RUTHERFORD. Researches on Radio-activity, and 

 particularly his Discovery of the Existence and Prop- 

 erties of the Gaseous Emanations from Radio-active 

 Bodies. 



The following is a list of grants made from the income 

 of the Rumford Fund of the American Academy in 

 furtherance of research. In a few cases the appropria- 

 tion has not been called for because the research in 

 question has not proved feasible, because funds have 



