RUMFORD PREMIUM. In conformity with the terms of the gift 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 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 said fund, as it now exists, 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, 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. INDEX. A. Chloroformic and Alcoholic Biographical Notices, list of, 553. Charles Edouard Brown-Sé- Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, 592. Oliver Wendell Holmes, 555. William Dwight Whitney, 579. C. Cacalia globosa, 119. Calcium, Double Haloid Salts of, 9. discolor, 88. inquinatus, 87. pallescens, 83. nodulosus, 73. occultus, 77. pacificus, 96. pallidus, 90. palmeri, 40. pinguis, 86. sallei, 63. |