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In conformity with the terms of the gift of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, of a certain Fund to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and with a decree of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts for carrying into effect the general charitable intent and purpose of Count Rumford, as expressed in his letter of gift, the Academy is empowered to make from the income of the Rumford Fund, as it now exists, at any Annual Meeting, an award of a gold and a 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 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 always being given to such discoveries as, in the opinion of the Academy, shall tend most to promote the good of mankind; and, if the Academy sees fit, to add to such medals, as a further Premium for such discovery and improvement, a sum of money not exceeding three hundred dollars.
Araucarioxylon Type, The History,
Comparative Anatomy and Evo-
lution of the, 531.
Arc, The talking, reproducing speech
transmitted by telephone, 784.
Arc and Spark, Zinc, Spectra of, 91.
Argentine, New or Critical Laboul-
beniales from the, 155.
Arrhenius, Svante, accepts Foreign
Honorary Membership, 777.
Assessment, Ännual, Amount of, 798.
Atmospheric Pressure, A Study with
the Echelon Spectroscope of Cer-
tain Lines in the Spectra of
the Zinc Arc and Spark at, 91.
Avogadro prize, 778.
Bailey, S. I., Stellar photographs,
showing examples of variable
stars having a more rapid rate of
variation than any hitherto
known, 784.
Baldwin, L. F., letter from, 779.
Baldwin, S. E., accepts Fellowship,
Bancroft, W. D., elected Fellow, 782;
accepts Fellowship, 785.
Bangs, Outram, Birds from the Altai
Mountains, 784.
Bauer, L. A., accepts Fellowship, 777.
Beams, bent, showing novel results of
recent experiments, Photographs
of, 784.
Bell, Louis, On the Ultra Violet Com-
ponent in Artificial Light, 1.
Bergson, Professor Henri, Special
meeting in honor of, 785.
Bermudas, Preliminary Study of the
Salinity of Sea-water in the, 783.
Bigelow, Dr. Jacob, Marble Bust of,
799.
Bigelow, W. S., presents marble bust
of Dr. Jacob Bigelow, 799.
Billings, J. S., death of, 788.
Birds from the Altai Mountains, 784.
Birkhoff, G. D., elected Fellow, 803.
Bixby, W. H.,accepts Fellowship, 777.
Blake, Francis, death of, 783.
Blake, S. F., a Redisposition of the
Species heretofore referred to
Leptosyne, 804; A Revision of
Encelia and some related Genera,
804.
Boas, Franz, accepts Fellowship, 778.
Boltwood, B. B., elected Fellow, 782;
accepts Fellowship, 785.
Boss, Lewis, death of, 778.
Bowditch, C. P., Report of Treasurer,
790.
Bridgman, P. W., accepts Fellowship,
777; Specimens of metals illus-
trating ruptures under pressures
up to 30,000 atmospheres, 784;
Thermodynamic Properties of
Liquid Water to 80° and 12000
Kgm., 307, 780.
Brown, E. W., accepts Fellowship,
777.
Brues, C. T., Entomological Studies
in connection with Epidemics of
Poliomyelitis, 783.
Buddhaghosa's Treatise entitled The
Way of Salvation, an Analysis of
the Second Part, on Concentra-
tion, 784.
Bulbils, Fungi producing, and Similar
Propagative Bodies, Culture
Studies of, 225.
Bullock, C. J., elected Fellow, 803.
Byers, H. G., and Langdon, S. C.,
Relation between the Magnetic
Field and the Passive State of
Iron, 804.
Byers, H. G., and Vores, F. T., Passiv-
ity of Iron under Boiler Condi-
tions, 804.
Cabot, A. T., death of, 778.
Cabot, Louis, resigns Fellowship, 777.
Chadwick, G. W., elected Fellow, 803.
Chaetomium, Preliminary Diagnoses
of New Species of, 81.
Chapman, H. L., accepts Fellowship,
777; death of, 785.
Chase, G. H., accepts Fellowship, 777.
Cheney, Howell, Remarks on Ameri-
can Silk Manufacture, 787.
Chester, W. M., The structure of the
Gorgonian Coral Pseudoplexaura
crassa Wright and Studer, 735,
787.
Chittendon, R. H., accepts Fellow-
ship, 777.
Chivers, A. H., Preliminary Diagno-
ses of New Species of Chaeto-
mium, 81.
Christian, H. A., elected Fellow, 803.
Clark, A. L., An Electric Heater and
Automatic Thermostat, 597.
Cliffwood, New Jersey, Cretaceous
Pityoxyla from, 607, 783.
Colonial Society of Massachusetts,
The, 779, letter from, 780.
Color measurement, Apparatus for,
784.
Color photography, Specimens of
work in, 784.
Committee on amendment of Stat-
utes, report of, 781, 798.
Committees, Standing, elected, 802;
list of, 823.
Comstock, D. F., accepts Fellowship,
777.
Comstock, G. C., elected Fellow, 782;
accepts Fellowship, 785.
Coolidge, J. L., elected Fellow, 803.
Coral Pseudoplexaura crassa Wright
and Studer, Gorgonian, The
Structure of the, 735, 787.
Coral Reefs, Dana's Contribution to
Darwin's Theory of, 780.
Council, Report of, 789.
Crafts, J. M., Rumford Medal pre-
sented to, 799.
Cretaceous Pityoxyla from Cliffwood,
New Jersey, 607.
Crew, Henry, elected Fellow, 803.
Cross, C. R., Report of the Rumford
Committee, 793.
Crothers, S. M., elected Fellow, 803.
Cryptogamic Laboratories of Har-
vard University, Contributions
from, 81, 155, 225, 363.
Ctenopappus, Revision of, 804.
Culture Studies of Fungi producing
Bulbils and Similar Propagative
Bodies, 225.
Dall, W. H., accepts Fellowship, 777.
Dana's Contribution to Darwin's
Theory of Coral Reefs, 780.
Darwin, Sir G. H., death of, 780.
Darwin's Theory of Coral Reefs,
Dana's Contribution to, 780.
Davis, W. M., Dana's Contribution
to Darwin's Theory of Coral
Reefs, 780.
Day, A. L., accepts Fellowship, 777.
Dewey, D. R., elected Fellow, 803.
Dexter, F. B., elected Fellow, 803.
Diaphragms, The Impedance of
Telephone Receivers as affected
by the Motion of their, 111.
Distance, Linear, and Angle, A Theo-
ry of, 45.
Dodge, Frederic, accepts Fellowship,
Ether, The, On the Existence and
Properties of, 509.
Eupatoricae, A Key to the Genera of
the Compositae, 804.
Evans, A. W.,accepts Fellowship, 777.
Fellows deceased, (9) -
J. S. Billings, 788.
Francis Blake, 783.
Lewis Boss, 778.
A. T. Cabot, 778.
H. L. Chapman, 785.
H. H. Furness, 778.
W. W. Goodwin, 778.
J. W. Mallet, 785.
O. C. Wendell, 778.
Fellows elected, (51) -
W. D. Bancroft, 782.
G. D. Birkhoff, 803.
B. B. Boltwood, 782.
C. J. Bullock, 803.
G. W. Chadwick, 803.
H. A. Christian, 803.
G. C. Comstock, 782.
J. L. Coolidge, 803.
Henry Crew, 803.
S. M. Crothers, 803.
D. R. Dewey, 803.
F. B. Dexter, 803.
D. L. Edsall, 782.
F. P. Fish, 803.
Arthur Foote, 803.
J. R. Freeman, 782.
D. C. French, 803.
E. B. Frost, 782.
E. F. Gay, 803.
C. H. Grandgent, 803.
Robert Grant, 804.
C. B. Gulick, 803.
A. B. Hart, 803.
C. H. Haskins, 803.
L. O. Howard, 782.
E. V. Huntington, 803.
H. C. G. von Jagemann, 803.
J. R. Jewett, 803.
N. A. Kent, 803.
C. A. Kofoid, 782.
William Lawrence, 803
E. D. Little, 803.
F. B. Mallory, 803.
J. T. Morse, Jr., 804.
W. B. Munro, 803.
E. F. Nichols, 782.
E. H. Nichols, 803.
Alfred Noble, 782.
W. A. Noyes, 803.
Okakura Kakuzo, 782.
Harold Pender, 803.
B. L. Pratt, 804.
E. K. Rand, 803.
W. E. Ritter, 782.
H. N. Sheldon, 803.
W. M. Sloane, 782.
Moorfield Storey, 803.
E. R. Thayer, 782.
T. F. Waters, 782.
R. W. Wood, 782.
G. E. Woodberry, 804.
Fellows resigned, (3)
Louis Cabot, 777.
John Fritz, 777.
R. B. Richardson, 777.
Fellows, List of, 825.
Fenn, W. W., transferred from Class
III., Section 4, to Class III.,
Section 1, 798.
Fernald, M. L., Geographic Origin of
Life in Newfoundland and the
Magdalen Islands, 780.
Fish, F. P., elected Fellow, 803.
Fisher, Irving, accepts Fellowship, 777.
Fitz, R. H., Biographical notice of
Dr. Robert Amory, 805.
FitzGerald, Desmond, accepts Fel-
lowship, 777.
Flexner, Simon, accepts Fellowship,
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