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tervals, a signal result marking a point in the 

 flow of the stream. Books and lectures present- 

 ing the last discoveries, or methods for discovery, 

 in the count's favorite subjects of experiment, 

 may be regarded as even something better than 

 an alternative in the improvement of his fund, to 

 the use of it for a medal or premium under the 

 pressure of a supposed obligation to bestow it 

 with chief reference to the lapse of two years. 



In view of all the circumstances and of the 

 difficulties which the case presented, one may 

 reasonably affirm that when the honored and 

 venerated chief-justice gave validity to the decree 

 of the court, he might have felt the full assurance 

 that Count Rumford himself would have dictated 

 its terms. 



At the close of the last fiscal year of the 

 academy (1904r-05) the Rumforcl Fund 

 amounted to $58,722.16, the income for 

 that year having been $2,550.73. 



A standing committee of the academy 

 known as the Rumford Committee, consist- 

 ing of seven fellows, is charged with the 

 supervision of the trust created by Count 

 Rumford, and considers all applications 

 and claims for the Rumford premium, and 

 all applications made for grants from the 

 income of the fund in aid of research or 

 for other purposes. 



The Rumford Committee was first con- 

 stituted a standing committee in 1833. Its 

 members were nominated annually by the 

 president of the academy until 1863, since 

 which time they have been chosen in the 

 same manner as the other officers. 



The following is a list of those who have 

 been members of the committee : 



MEMBERS OF THE 



1833-1838, 

 1833-1837, 

 1833-1848, 

 1833-1846, 

 1833-1849, 

 1837-1846, 

 1838-1839, 

 1839-1840, 

 1840-1843, 

 1843-1849, 

 1846-1850, 



RUMFORD COMMITTEE, 1833-1905. 



Nathaniel Bowditch. 

 Francis C. Gray. 

 Daniel Treadwell. 

 Jacob Bigelow. 

 John Ware. 

 John Pickering. 

 James Jackson. 

 Benjamin Peirce. 

 George B. Emerson. 

 Benjamin Peirce. 

 Francis C. Lowell. 



1846- 

 1847- 

 1848- 

 1849- 

 1849- 

 1850- 

 1862- 

 1863- 

 1863- 

 1863- 

 1863- 

 1864 

 1864 

 1866- 

 1868- 

 1869- 

 1871- 

 1871- 

 1877- 

 1878- 

 1878- 

 1880 

 1885- 

 1890 

 1892- 

 1892 

 1892- 

 1894 

 1896 

 1897- 

 1897- 

 1902 



-1847, 

 ■1868, 

 ■1863, 

 •1863, 

 ■1878, 

 -1862, 

 -1871, 

 -1869, 

 -1864, 

 -1864, 

 -1866, 

 ■1894, 

 -1871, 

 -1877, 

 -1878, 

 -1890, 

 -1885, 

 -1880, 

 -1897, 

 -1892, 

 -1892, 

 -1891, 



'-1896, 



-1896, 

 -1902, 



James Hayward. 

 Joseph Love ring. 

 Eben N. Horsford. 

 Daniel Treadwell. 

 Morrill Wyman. 

 Henry L. Eustis. 

 Joseph Winlock. 

 Williata B. Bogers. 

 Charles W. Eliot. 

 Theophilus Parsons. 

 Cyrus M. Warren. 

 Wolcott Gibbs. 

 Francis H. Storer. 

 Josiah P. Cooke. 

 James B. Francis. 

 Edward C. Pickering. 

 John M. Ordway. 

 Stephen P. Ruggles. 

 John Trowbridge. 

 Josiah P. Cooke. 

 Joseph Lovering. 

 George B. Clark. 

 Erasmus D. Leavitt. 

 Benjamin 0. Peirce. 

 Edward C. Pickering. 

 Amos E. Dolbear. 

 Charles R. Cross. 

 Benjamin A. Gould. 

 Arthur G. Webster. 

 Thomas C. Mendenhall. 

 Theodore W. Richards. 

 Elihu Thomson. 



The successive chairmen of the Rumford 

 Committee up to the present time have 

 been the following : Messrs. Nathaniel Bow- 

 ditch (1833-1838), James Jackson (1838- 

 1839), John Pickering (1839-1846)', Daniel 

 Treadwell (1846-1848), Eben N. Horsford 

 (1848-1863), Joseph Lovering (1863- 

 1868), Joseph Winlock (1868-1871), Jo- 

 siah P. Cooke (1871-1876), Morrill Wy- 

 man (1876-1878), Joseph Lovering (1878- 

 1892), John Trowbridge (1892-1897), 

 Charles R. Cross (1897-). 



The Rumford premium is awarded by 

 the academy upon the recommendation of 

 the Rumford Committee. It has been 

 given to the following persons and on the 

 ground stated: 



