﻿Vlll 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 receive 

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

 sonally or by written order, within two yeai's from the date of publication. 



3. Eesident 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 apphcation, 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, imtil otherwise ordered. 



7. The annual meeting shaU 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 

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



BUM FORD 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 efifect 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, 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 discovery and improvement, if the Academy see fit so to do, a sum 

 of money not exceeding three hundred dollars. 



